Andrew S. Tanenbaum Quotes
With current technology it is possible to put four floppy disk drives in a personal computer. It is just that doing so would be pointless.
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I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.
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Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.
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I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story.
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I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical styles, where they didn't really belong. They're kind of like, 'No, we're a real culture! We're not going anywhere, you can't get rid of us!' I really liked that there was a rebelliousness about it. I connected with that.
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The thing about abs is if you hit them daily, you feel more put-together.
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Da stehe ich nun, ich armer Thor!Und bin so klug als wie zuvor.
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What is called for is dignity. We need to set an example.
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Along with Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple, these companies are in a race to become our 'personal assistant.' They want to wake us in the morning, have their artificial intelligence software guide us through our days, and never quite leave our sides.
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My childhood growing up in that part of Glasgow always sounds like some kind of sub-Catherine Cookson novel of earthy working-class immigrant life, which to some extent it was, but it wasn't really as colourful that.
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I wish the children could be taught early on that our thinking creates our experience.
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Dad would always play Ray Charles in the car on the way to swimming, then we'd sing musicals. Now my heroes are Janis Joplin and Bonnie Raitt and Max Richter.
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A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
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What's interesting about the transportation market is that you're often dabbling in multiple categories. The same person who might own a car is still using Uber, is still using a taxi, still might go to Avis on a business trip and rent a car.
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I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.
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I'm very cagey about making friends, and I rarely do.
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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.
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Southern law enforcement people were even worse: the descendants of the paddyrollers and overseers who’d made their living grinding her kind into fertilizer in the cotton fields of slavery.
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I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.
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With current technology it is possible to put four floppy disk drives in a personal computer. It is just that doing so would be pointless.
