I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a … - Wietse Venema

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Dance is low on the totem pole of the arts, because you're not left with a painting. . . a book that will stay there, a score you can read.

Wietse Venema

I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of time, so I came with a whole list of projects that I might want to work on.

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However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.

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I often think. . . that the bookstores that will save civilization are not online, nor on campuses, nor named Borders, Barnes & Noble, Dalton, or Crown. They are the used bookstores, in which, for a couple of hundred dollars, one can still find, with some diligence, the essential books of our culture, from the Bible and Shakespeare to Plato, Augustine, and Pascal.

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Henry David Thoreau

As for the dispute about solitude and society, any comparison is impertinent. It is an idling down on the plane at the base of a mountain, instead of climbing steadily to its top.

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Jerome Robbins

Dance is low on the totem pole of the arts, because you're not left with a painting. . . a book that will stay there, a score you can read.

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Wes Borland

I've never been in a band where someone goes, 'Ah, I've got the perfect name! And it's because I climbed Mount Fuji, and at the top a golden dove came down. . . ' It's always a bunch of guys sitting around going, 'How about Rotten Chipmunks?

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I want to create a management company for people like me so that they don't have to give up the way they present [themselves], they just have someone to help them keep their business afloat.

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