Edsger Dijkstra Quotes
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
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My public in Guadalajara and the people from Guadalajara, they've supported me since day one.
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I'd say that Spanish football is probably the best I've seen.
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Theater dates very quickly.
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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I have a great office.
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I remember when I first came to Liverpool, Pepe Reina helped with everything, and he made it easy for me. When I was Atletico Madrid captain, I tried to help everyone. These are the basics in football: you need to create an atmosphere and try to create a group of friends. It's not easy, and it doesn't always happen, but you have to try.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.
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I don't have any idols, any heroes, nothing, no.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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I'm a vocabulary nerd.
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It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.
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Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
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Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them. Let me extend that generosity to myself.
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One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.
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To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
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To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the Gestapo was equally a victim, then there can be no right or wrong in life that I understand.
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Love is the most potent cosmetic.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the middle based on the fact that we were creatures of the margin and of alienation.
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Wimbledon is the world's most boring tournament. There's hardly anything to do apart from tennis. You constantly find yourself yawning - there's no entertainment here.
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The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
