Alan Perlis Quotes
80: Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.
Quotes to Explore
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When I was in high school, I was a bad kid and a good student.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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Being behind the lens gives me a completely different perspective, and because of my blog, I get to do projects and attend shows lending me another angle.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.
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If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
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There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
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Image means a lot. It is everything in the business that we are in.
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I'd like to go back to standup. I don't like to think I've done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I get really nervous. It's a great buzz when it goes well.
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I have a bit of a traveling addiction, and, ah, yeah. I went to, ah, Bali this summer.
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The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.
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Ever since I was a teenager, my style around girls has been kinda like 'laid back in da cut.'
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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House passage is good news for the Northwest corner and our environment.
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Obama is the new kid with the weird name who people just sense is a little classier than his surroundings. He moved from a private school where he was class president and is now at the giant public high school with the metal detectors and the smoking lounge.
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I was the muse of Tom Ford and Gucci for years, but that was a long time ago.
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In some ways, I feel like I've always dabbled in nostalgia. It's just what I do; it comes naturally.
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The truth is, as long as nuclear weapons exist, we are not safe.
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I think in every industry you need to have a lot of talent; you need to have a lot of drive, but you need a little bit of luck.
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
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The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.
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Welcome to the world we live in as coaches. You've got to figure out what you can do best and better to get these kids a chance to be successful. I think that comes through a lot of things - confidence, improvement, recruiting.
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The museum in D.C. is really a narrative museum - the nature of a people and how you represent that story. Whereas the Studio Museum is really a contemporary art museum that happens to be about the diaspora and a particular body of contemporary artists ignored by the mainstream. The Studio Museum has championed that and brought into the mainstream. So the museums are like brothers, but different.
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80: Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.
