Alan Perlis Quotes
19: A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.Alan Perlis
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
A. P. Herbert -
He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
Orison Swett Marden -
The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.
Barton Gellman -
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Edmund Burke -
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.
Naguib Mahfouz -
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
W. P. Kinsella -
Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
Malcolm Forbes -
In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life.
Yael Naim -
If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
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.
J. B. Smoove -
Daft Punk wouldn't have normally fit into anything that was pop on the radio, but they just did it.
Danger Mouse
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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.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
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.
Zach Braff -
I understand human needs. I grew up where far too many people lived day to day without elemental needs like food and shelter.
Naveen Jain -
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.
Sam Harris -
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.
Carlene Carter -
There's really no age limit when you out there in those streets.
Young Buck
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To teach him betimes to love and be good-natur'd to others, is to lay early the true foundation of an honest man; all injustice generally springing from too great love of ourselves and too little of others.
John Locke Nazareth -
The only thing experience teaches you is what you can't do. When you start, you think you can do anything. And then you start to get a little tired.
Elaine May -
I don't need to be rich anymore; I don't need to be a millionaire.
Sia LSD -
The heart of a statesman should be in his head.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
When we talk about economic growth, we're not talking about bringing a bunch of companies in that can make a bunch of bucks and hope they spend 'em in our city. We're talking about creating jobs, creating new companies and then we move from there to talk about cooperatives which can become some of those jobs, some of the solidarity economy where we can begin to band together people so they'll understand that a job is not a single individual affair but a collective affair.
Chokwe Lumumba -
19: A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
Alan Perlis