Alan Perlis Quotes
19: A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
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Beauty is whatever gives joy.
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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
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In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life.
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If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it.
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Kids love me. I can bounce back and forth. I can discipline kids, and I can get into the mind of a kid. In my brain, I consider myself the ultimate video game player. The ultimate snack maker.
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Daft Punk wouldn't have normally fit into anything that was pop on the radio, but they just did it.
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What's really important is that all we ever were was a band. And all we ever wanted to be was a band.
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As a kid who wasn't into sports, at school I felt almost alienated at times, whereas in the theatre community there was this amazing sense of camaraderie. Early on, we would go to rehearsals with my dad and I was like the mascot for the backstage crew. That was a big part of my childhood, so I dreamed of one day doing a play in London.
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I understand human needs. I grew up where far too many people lived day to day without elemental needs like food and shelter.
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To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding ourselves with euphemisms. We're talking about Islam being a religion of peace that's been hijacked by extremists. If ever there were a religion that's not a religion of peace, it is Islam.
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Whenever I've not known what to do, I've always gone back to the Carter Family because there was nothing like singing with my aunts and my mom to my grandma.
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There's really no age limit when you out there in those streets.
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I can't stand Paris. I hate the place. Full of people talking French, which is a thing I bar. It always seems to me so affected.
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I am shocked at the attitude of our American troops. They have no respect for death, the courage of an enemy soldier, or many of the ordinary decencies of life.
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Always be yourself. At the end of the day, that's all you've really got; when you strip everything down, that's all you've got, so always be yourself.
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Men are born privileged in the scale of things - I'm generalizing, but it's true. Women have to define themselves in the eyes of men. They have to fight for their rights, especially in a society that will pretend that there is no fight or no battle, that it's a cliche, that feminists are reactionary, all these things.
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I'm better looking in person.
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19: A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
