Alan Perlis Quotes
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I caught the acting bug from my dad.
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.
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Actually, my wine was served at the White House twice. Reagan must have been asleep when he ordered it.
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As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - along with other science fiction shows and movies. And I always wanted to fly.
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I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.
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My film knowledge is pretty shocking. I'm trying to correct that.
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When I was little, I guess I was just an ordinary kid. But then things changed when I was in junior high. You know, kids that become geeks become one because of something. Like, they aren't good at sports, or girls don't like them. I, too, for some reason, got into things like science fiction and, well, especially science fiction as an escape.
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I take my work seriously.
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The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.
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My version of makeup is a really intense skin regimen. I just think it's a healthier way to look at beauty.
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I'm predisposed to never be in pure celebration mode.
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All the dreamers in all the world are dizzy in the noodle.
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The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.
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I am following a particular diet, and it requires me to not just eat right but also at the right time. So, I carry food from home.
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How important is failure - yes, failure - to the health of a thriving, innovative business? So important that Ratan Tata, chairman of India's largest corporation, gives an annual award to the employee who comes up with the best idea that failed.
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People really want to set up these rivalries because there's a lot of vampire books out there. People want to believe we're all fierce rivals, and really there's just so much camaraderie with authors. Everyone kind of boosts each other.
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When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression.
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I definitely have a shareholders' perspective. I'm not doing that altruistically. I'm doing that because it's in my own self interest to do it. I think that's good for my other shareholders because they go along with me: If I do well for myself, then they do well for themselves.
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I never met Sam Raimi in my whole life.
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To my mind, what we ought to have maintained from the beginning was the strictest neutrality. If we had done this, I do not believe we would have been on the verge of war at the present time.
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11: If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
