Gary Kildall Quotes

Ask Bill [Gates] why the string in [MS-DOS] function 9 is terminated by a dollar sign. Ask him, because he can't answer. Only I know that.

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• I really do miss playing basketball. I don't play a lot of pick-up games. But I do like using basketball as a form of cross training.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Up
  • Play
  • Training

• We must have the courage to confront dreadful views even in the people we love the most. But that's difficult to do when we cast large segments of our fellow citizens into a basket to be condemned and disparaged, judging them even as we ignore that many of their deplorable traits exist in us, too.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Courage
  • Confront

• They go on about banning size zero, but I think Hollywood stars are the worst perpetrators. Most models are naturally long and gangly, while a lot of these young girls in Hollywood have gone on extreme diets. Their concave chests and bony arms are terrifying. It's scary to think that normal teenagers are tempted to copy them.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Long
  • Scary
  • Stars

• Don't get it twisted. It's not about money, it's not about the fame. It's about I don't have to worry about if my little brother is gonna be able to get a new toy for Christmas. It's those little tiny things that really make up the bigger picture. So, my happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Life
  • Up
  • Money

• Very old are the woods; And the buds that break Out of the brier's boughs, When March winds wake, So old with their beauty are-- Oh, no man knows Through what wild centuries Roves back the rose.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Men
  • Rose
  • Break

• We have reached a strange new place in marketing when tweets become full-page print ads.

  

  Anthony Oliver "A. O." Scott
  • Strange
  • Marketing
  • Pages

• Fashions fade, style is eternal. - Yves Saint-LaurentThe most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you've got to have a good spirit on the inside. That's what's really going to make you look like you're ready to rock the world. - Alicia KeysIt's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• Only one thing mattered: this was not a Horcrux. Dumbledore had weakened himself by drinking that horrible potion for nothing. Harry crumpled the parchment in his hand and his eyes burned with tears as behind him Fang began to howl.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Eyes
  • Hand
  • Eye

• Listen at me. The end is almost never far off any time at all!

  

  J. California Cooper
  • Time

• A positive state of mind is not merely good for you, it benefits everyone with whom you come into contact, literally changing the world.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Good
  • Mind

• I always try to share with others the idea that in order to become compassionate it is not necessary to become religious.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Religious
  • inspirational
  • Compassion

• It would be more interesting to learn from children, than try to teach them how to behave, how to live and how to function.

  

  U.G. Krishnamurti
  • Live
  • Children
  • Trying

• If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Good

• I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn't speak publicly.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Government
  • Speak
  • Television

• I am a sort of vampire, taking the blood of other people.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Blood
  • Vampire

• While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can say that at that moment, and for that person the photograph acts as a symbol or plays the role of a metaphor for something that is beyond the subject photographed.

  

  Minor White
  • Moments
  • Persons
  • Photograph

• I got Soul Power, never took a cold shower,

  

  James Anthony Robinson
  • Power
  • Soul
  • Color

• On the other side of the jelly-glass docking hatch they could see, improbably, impossibly, a hyperactive red panda jumping up and down and waving his paws at them.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • See
  • Panda
  • Other Side

• Ask Bill [Gates] why the string in [MS-DOS] function 9 is terminated by a dollar sign. Ask him, because he can't answer. Only I know that.

  

  Gary Kildall
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