Brian Christian Quotes
Minimizing the sum of completion times leads to a very simple optimal algorithm called Shortest Processing Time: always do the quickest task you can.
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There is absolutely no Wuxia or martial arts in 'Red Cliff.' I want all the action to look realistic.
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Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
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I appropriate what is already mine, for once a thing is published it becomes public property.
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You have to be an extremist to believe that you're gonna be the president of the United States and your name is Barack Hussein Obama! And he's using extreme methods, but his application is very smooth. Michelle Obama is extreme, her presence is extreme. And it's an extreme good. Extreme is not negative.
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secrets One of my secrets is to joke all the time.
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Bigotry is surely an exportable American commodity, especially when it comes to race.
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There's a lot of great things to see here in the United States. Those times spent together with maps and old cups from the diner you went to, those are really important as a family.
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To me, it was shocking that a government of men could look with such extreme contempt on a movement that was asking nothing except such a simple little thing as the right to vote.
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I am one, my liege, Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world Have so incensed that I am reckless what I do to spite the world.
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A little damage could only be an improvement.
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The moments when I first made something, like when I first wrote a song please me so intensely. Everything else after that is just the act of communication.
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My advice is to develop a good regimen and stick to it!
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All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.
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I've worked with a number of big bands, but there's nothing in life like the Basie band.
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Chris McQuarrie cast me in 'Mission Impossible' because he'd seen 'The Crown' and loved it.
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I'm appalled by the tendency of some rock records to perfect everything to the point where it sounds like Botox and polish it so heavily that there's no humanity left in it.
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An untreatable diagnosis is a statement about the medical system, not the patient.
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A painting is not a battle against other people, but against oneself.
