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 have a great office.
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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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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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As long as a member state is a member state, there are no negotiations bilaterally on any trade agreement with third parties.
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I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.
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Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
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You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.
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The legislation of Quran will spread all over the world, because it agrees with the mind, logic and wisdom.
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I look at people's lives and you see what's not working in their lives and it usually comes from an undisciplined mind.
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Fascism in Uruguay did not begin just with the military coup of 1973, but years before, even when there was still a government with a constitution and parliament.
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The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
