Alan Kay Quotes
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
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No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'
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It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.
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I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it's me. I'm very French.
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I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.
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I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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Some children are tackling tough times without the support that can help them because the adults in their life are scared to ask.
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Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.
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The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
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When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
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I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.
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Regressing back to an infant state is nothing to be proud of. Rich Americans don't drive themselves, don't cook, don't do their own nails/hair/make-up, don't shop, and I suppose all they've got in common with rich British people is that they don't raise their own kids, either.
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With social networks these days, everyone needs to know everything all the time. But the problem is, people are so used to short snippets of information that no one has any attention span anymore. I don't, anyway.
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I think when you've been in office for a long time, you have a record, and that record is fair game.
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Kids today look at me like I'm Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
