Alan Perlis Quotes

11: If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.

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• I caught the acting bug from my dad.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Dad
  • Acting
  • Caught

• 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.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • You
  • Fool
  • Genius

• Actually, my wine was served at the White House twice. Reagan must have been asleep when he ordered it.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • House
  • Wine
  • White

• 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.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Movie
  • Science
  • Star

• I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Power
  • Learned
  • Market

• You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Fall
  • Down
  • Eating

• My film knowledge is pretty shocking. I'm trying to correct that.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Trying
  • Pretty
  • Knowledge

• 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.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • Good
  • Kids
  • High

• I take my work seriously.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Work
  • Take
  • Seriously

• The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Secret
  • Said
  • Now

• My version of makeup is a really intense skin regimen. I just think it's a healthier way to look at beauty.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Beauty
  • Look
  • Makeup

• All the dreamers in all the world are dizzy in the noodle.

  

  Edie Adams
  • World
  • Dreamers
  • Dizzy

• 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
  • Hope
  • Future
  • See

• 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
  • Time
  • Home
  • Food

• 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
  • Up
  • Important
  • Business

• 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
  • Great
  • Job
  • American

• 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
  • True
  • Nature
  • Powerful

• 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
  • House
  • Sun

• When you think that you are done you're only 40% in to what your body's capable of doing.that's just the limits that we put on ourselves.

  

  David Goggins
  • Think
  • Limits
  • Capable

• I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music

• One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.

  

  George Saintsbury
  • Facts
  • Name
  • Languages

• I have three kids, the oldest is 18 and her friends are going to see it The Aristocrats because they told her they're going to see it, especially her guy friends.

  

  Bob Saget
  • Kids
  • Friends
  • Guy

• I think the most effective managers in the world have a team that wants to jump through brick walls for them.

  

  Megyn Kelly
  • World
  • Team
  • Jump

• 11: If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.

  

  Alan Perlis