Megan Smith Quotes

Founded in 1994 by the Anita Borg Institute and growing every year, the Grace Hopper Celebration is bringing needed network connections, skill building, and visibility for women computer scientists who work at all levels of our industry.

Megan Smith

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Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago and grappling with issues of empire and terrorism.

Robert Harris

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Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

Ambrose Bierce

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Second marriages can and do create 'real' families.

Stephanie Coontz

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All of the directors I've worked with I've gotten along with very well.

Trevor Rabin

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Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

Tom Peters

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I made a CD in my dorm room and put it on the Internet, and my friends blew it up. Within a few months, I was doing shows across the country without a record deal, without a single, without anything.

Mike Posner

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I suppose 'My Hollywood' is only as politically meaningful as it is deeply inside the least powerful of its characters. I wanted it to reveal scenes of subtle exploitation, odd instances of accidental power and challenges to decency specific to its time, but also impulses of generosity that transcend our particular era's messes.

Mona Simpson

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Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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I always tend to think just left of center, to remove myself from the world by one step. It is very freeing, and it's a particular way of coming at stories and looking at them that I find the most beautiful stuff that I know comes from, ultimately.

Joss Whedon

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What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

Jonathan Swift

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Kendrick Lamar is the real deal. He's a real artist, and he's gonna be here for awhile because this guy is seriously talented.

Dr. Dre

ArtistSeriouslyRealGuyHereDeal

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

Christopher Hampton

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