Alan Perlis Quotes
11: If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
Alan Perlis
Quotes to Explore
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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.
F. L. Lucas
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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.
Yami Gautam
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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.
Naveen Jain
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The great thing about Watergate is, is that the system worked. The American system worked. The press did its job. We did what we were supposed to do.
Carl Bernstein
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Ishta-devata and Guru are aids - very powerful aids on this path. But an aid to be effective requires your effort also. Your effort is a sine qua non. It is you who should see the sun. Can spectacles and the sun see for you? You yourself have to see your true nature. Not much aid is required for doing it!
Ramana Maharshi
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My house has changed a little in the sun. The fragrance of the magnolias come close, False flick, false form, but falseness close to kin.
Wallace Stevens
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My very first acting job ever, the first time I got paid to be an actress, was in 2001, right between my sophomore and junior year in college, when I was just 19 years old. I got paid $250 every two weeks, 10 shows a week, to be in the Utah Shakespearean Festival. I was Calpurnia in 'Julius Caesar.'
Katy Mixon
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Probably all writers are at some point briefly under the impression that they are in the forefront of disintegration and chaos, that they are among the first to live and work after things fall apart. The continuity such an impression ignores is a literary continuity.
Martin Amis
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Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.
Michael Bergdahl
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Fear shuts people down. When you feel safe, your brain is free to soar. When you feel in danger, your brain goes into survival mode, not peak performance mode. Too many people feel unsafe at work, under toxic pressures, and stretched too thin. They are literally about to snap. Within an atmosphere of trust and what I call connection, a supervisor can create conditions under which people's brains can set aside fear and fly high.
Edward Hallowell
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11: If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
Alan Perlis
