Edsger Dijkstra Quotes
If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me.
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I am especially fascinated with mermaids, and they are always coming out in pirate stories.
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I'm not sure specifically but there's definitely parts of me in Rikku.
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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I don't know why my shoes are so popular - I am always surprised and mystified by it.
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Let me clarify this very definitely. This is not an authoritarian organization.
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I think with girlfriends, you always want your girlfriends to make the decisions for themselves, not based on a boy, not based on anything other than, 'Is this what you want?' Is this you know what you want to do?' And that's real support to me.
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What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.
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I'm not a girly girl. I go to the bar. I like to get dirty. I love sports. I'm like the son my dad never had.
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I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.
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Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.
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For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
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I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.
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If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.
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I wouldn't recommend being a musician to anyone. It's not glamorous. It's a lot of being dirty, not eating, playing for five people and one of them is the bartender.
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I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
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I am a complete sentimentalist when it comes to clothes. I have so many memories attached to them that I can't throw anything out.
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Every time you become confidential with some people, you hear of a new kind of dirty trick.
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Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
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Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?
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The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image.
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He's a good pitcher that's got electrifying stuff. He throws in the upper 90s and has an unbelievable slider. I think he's a great pickup for us. I'm very excited to have him.
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If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me.
