Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Ritchie

One of the obvious things that went wrong with Multics as a commercial success was just that it was sort of over-engineered in a sense. There was just too much in it.

Brian Eno

The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing to do, the most obvious thing to do with your instrument.

Andy Summers

The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.

David Archuleta

Only recently I’ve learned, it’s an obvious thing, but it just took me a while to realize

Tod Machover

The one obvious thing is that the devices are so good now that you can also see their limitations extremely well.

Mohsin Hamid

It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.

Malcolm McDowell

Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

Fred Wilson

Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don't do the obvious thing.

Patrick Ness

even when peaceful cooperation is the obvious thing, the only thing that will keep any of us alive- There are still people who won't make that choice

Albert Schweitzer

To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Mabel Illidge

Many students see the importance of the minor, and even a major in Spanish for personal pleasure, for interest in new careers and for enhancement of their own careers.

Stephen Parker

Motivating more young people to take an interest in understanding and learning science at school is important not only because science careers are exciting and rewarding, but also because young people need to know about how science and technology is changing our world -- their world!. Science in School is just one of the initiatives being supported by the Commission to take this forward.

Damon Jones

When I got to the league, I learned and looked up to guys who had long-lasting careers because they didn't partake in alcohol. I'd say it's very rare (for an NBA player), but I'm already high on life and I enjoy living, so I don't need any extra additives.

Chris Cornell

I've had a long career and I want to continue to have a long career. The way to do that is not to go away.

Diane Lane

If people knew what made hits they'd make more of them, so to have the illusion of control over one's career isn't something I can even pretend to have.

Diane Lane

For me, going away to work is the hardest part of my life and career.

Dennis Ritchie

Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson.

Dennis Quaid

Playing Bill Clinton is really, probably, the scariest time of my career.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.