Edsger Dijkstra Quotes
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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During workouts, I listen to Pandora, and I like the '90s pop stations. 'The Backstreet Boys' is fun!
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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I am very happy my Olympic dream has come true.
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Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
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Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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I was eight when I left Sarajevo, so I didn't really know very much about my culture and it was so important for me to go back to my roots and meet the people.
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The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.
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I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.
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You might call me an accidental entrepreneur.
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I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.
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Don't ask me who my favourite monster was because I'm sick of saying Tom Baker.
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Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.
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The time of testing, and of playing, was over. This was the final duel for one of them. Now they were fighting for their lives--for the one life that would emerge from this elegant battle. . . . For the moment the two of them were evenly matched, arm against arm. Michael prayed that it would never stop, that there would always be this moment of utter mastery, beautiful and rare, and no conclusion ever be reached.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
