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
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  • World
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• A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Thinking
  • Creative
  • Focused

• America is not - and never will be - at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • War

• 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

• What I am learning from my experience as someone who grew up as a refugee, who became French, and then became American is that nationalities are something that we use to divide us. We are all one humanity. I want to dedicate my voice to all people.

  

  Yasmine Elmasri
  • People
  • Up
  • Experience

• 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

• The problem is not the harshness of Fate, for anything we want strongly enough we get. The trouble is rather that when we have it we grow sick of it, and then we should never blame Fate, only our own desire.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Want
  • Fate
  • Get

• The rapidly evolving global economy demands a dynamic and creative workforce. The arts and its related businesses are responsible for billions of dollars in cultural exports for this country. It is imperative that we continue to support the arts and arts education both on the national and local levels. The strength of every democracy is measured by its commitment to the arts.

  

  Charles Segars
  • Country
  • Art
  • Education

• It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Virtue
  • Function
  • Within

• I think the term "interbeing" has cropped up in a lot of places. It's in the atmosphere, because it's just so true, and the time for that truth to be revealed to mass society is here. It's like in those French bakeries where they don't need to add yeast to the dough, because the yeast is so ambient in the air that the dough gets quickened whether or not you add yeast to it. Many people, even without doing a whole lot of study and reading, are coming to the same kinds of conclusions and perceptions about the world as I am.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Reading

• 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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