Quotes about t
talking racism liberty
Every time one of us starts talking about more effective immigration controls, somebody else throws up the Statue of Liberty, how we're a nation of immigrants and all of that. The debate takes on tinges of racism, emotion. Alan K. Simpson
too-much enough
Maybe I thought too much about picking up the money and not enough about the really good parts. Alan Ladd
tired voice air
When I was on the air a lot my throat and vocal chords got tired. If you don't vary your tones you can't get pretty tired of your own voice. Alan Ladd
thinking expenses ifs
If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something. Alan King
teacher couple lying
By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view. School is basically about one point of view -- the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle. Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice. Alan Kay
technology stuff born
Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff. Alan Kay
teacher school views
School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view,... Alan Kay
thinking voice brain
I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” - because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one's own “brain voices”. The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick. Alan Kay
technology special needs
Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when and for what. Alan Kay
technology machines language
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. Alan Kay
technology born
Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born. Alan Kay
technology important firsts
An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it. Alan Kay
training java degrees
I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. Alan Kay
technology people serious
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. Alan Kay
thinking ideas make-you-think
Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS. Alan Kay
teacher lying book
I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me. Alan Kay
tired years eight
I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon. Charlotte Bronte
thinking performances
Let your performance do the thinking. Charlotte Bronte
trust-myself jane
I loved him very much - more than I could trust myself to say - more than words had power to express." - Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
thinking impossible natural
I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you Charlotte Bronte
trying ears violence
Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence. Charlotte Bronte
talking may alarms
Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated. Charlotte Bronte
thinking animated weariness
To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking. Charlotte Bronte
trying empty blank
Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank. Charlotte Bronte
talking feet addresses
I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal--as we are! Charlotte Bronte
thinking race two
You need not think that because we chanced to be born of the same parents, I shall suffer you to fasten me down by even the feeblest claim: I can tell you this - if the whole human race, ourselves excepted, were swept away, and we two stood alone on the earth, I would leave you in the old world, and betake myself to new. Charlotte Bronte
thinking matrimony draws
As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself. Charlotte Bronte
thinking forever breathe
I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.' - Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
twilight home heart
I was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the chidings of Bessie, the nurse, and humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John, and Georgiana Reed. Charlotte Bronte
tongue narrators listeners
The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator. Charlotte Bronte
thank-you answers doe
It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer. Charlotte Bronte
trying quality honest
The whole underlying theme for the new music... is to communicate honest, human values, and in doing that to try to improve the quality of life. Charlie Haden
teaching want discovering
I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them... Charlie Haden