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Ellen Ullman Quotes

To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. There's no getting around it. You either make your accommodations with failure, or the work will become intolerable.

Ellen Ullman

Recitation: by Male by Female

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Nationality: american

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Work Failure Relationship You Become

Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we're spending in Pakistan, we're spending $30 in Afghanistan. Does that make strategic sense?

Joe Biden

Afghanistan Dollar Nuclear Weapons

I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

Time Ideas Strange Did Certain

Everyone feels sad occasionally. A full range of emotions is part of what makes us human.

Michael Greger

Sad Emotions Human Everyone Us Full

My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, that's a reflection of another character.

Riz Ahmed

Music Character Reflection Me Acting

American presidential leadership never goes out of style.

Monica Crowley

Leadership Style American Never Out

Clearly I'm able to read emotions. But I do feel... What is it? Awkwardness. I'm not a slick dude. That's what it comes down to. The nakedness, the guilelessness... that's quite real.

Louis Theroux

Feel Down Emotions Real Clearly

David and his followers taught no new doctrines, in their dispersion or when they came to power, that can be brought to countenance thee at all in shaving off thy beard.

Lord George Gordon

Power Beard New Shaving Followers

My belief is the majority of people in politics are just interested in pursuing this career in politics, and doing what's necessary to get themselves re-elected. And if that happens to coincide with the public good, great. But if it doesn't, the public good loses out.

Dick Murphy

Good Great Politics People Doing

I don't like to be pigeon-holed.

Cliff Chiang

Like Pigeon-Holed

Carmiel Banasky, a writer like no other, is a talent to watch.

Claire Messud

Talent Watch Like Writer Other

In the same way that a film director would use a film lens to blur out a certain item or use a spotlight, I use certain movements that draw the eye instinctually.

Apollo Robbins

Eye Blur Lens Way Director Out

When I started off, I always used to do parodies and impressions, mimicking people... and then institutions. You become aware that some institutions have their own language. You almost define yourself by how you speak.

Armando Iannucci

Yourself People Speak Language You