Richard Powers Quotes

Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.

Richard Powers

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SchoolLivingOutGoingTechWriter

I'd been told that when you first put your feet on African ground, you'll be hit by a feeling of overwhelming understanding, like you've returned home and suddenly belong. Quite frankly, I didn't feel that.

Jill Scott

HomeFeetFeelUnderstandingYou

Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.

John Carmack

NatureLawCleverYearsAnything

I studied Computer Science when I was in my undergrad and minored in Digital Art & Design.

Jenova Chen

ScienceArtDesignDigitalComputer

The first thing we need is for President Obama to finally enforce current immigration law and strengthen our borders. To take up any other agenda is bad policy for the American people and bad politics for Republicans.

John Fleming

PoliticsPeopleLawAmericanBad

Movies are as old as psychoanalysis. So if I were to put you or anyone else on a couch and say, 'Tell me your favorite movies,' it would be a way of psychoanalyzing you.

Andrew Sarris

MeYouSayMoviesWayOld

Coming through the fire and through the storm of life with a strong man, my fiance Ashanti, whom I've been dating for eight months and two wonderful children beside me, I'm just so happy that I have been able to maintain my integrity and get to where I am today with the right energy around me.

Angie Stone

LifeIntegrityTodayChildrenFire

I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.

Travis Barker

TeacherMeYouPlayJazzWill

I don't think you can sing about certain things when you're a teen-ager or in your early 20s, because you haven't lived long enough. So I think living gives you character and that comes out in your voice.

Tom Jones

CharacterVoiceThinkEnoughYou

Actors were the first people to accept me.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

PeopleMeAcceptFirstWere

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Louisa May Alcott

GoodPowerGreatTalentGeniusYou

I love being at home, having friends over.

Cote de Pablo

LoveHomeFriendsOverBeingHaving

Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from.

Brandon Boyd

MusicArtYouPlaceKnowWhere

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