#ago

Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#could #create #different #domains #general

I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the wonderful Sydney Opera House and also performing in Melbourne for the first time. ↗

— Lesley Garrett

#also #am #festival #first #first time

The dirty little secret is that I grew up in a household where there were no carbohydrates allowed, ever. No cookies, no bread, no potatoes, no rice. My mother was very extreme in terms of what she served. Since I left home more than 40 years ago, I've been making it right for myself. ↗

— Ina Garten

#allowed #been #bread #carbohydrates #cookies

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago? ↗

— Bill Gates

#crossed #finish #finish line #had #i

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt. ↗

— Henry George

#boldest #century #clothed #could #dreamt

Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government. ↗

— King George V

#dear #died #government #i #i wonder

Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#ago #caused #cute #died #ever

I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago. ↗

— James Laughlin

#ago #any #as far as #come #concrete

After The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, the audience would like to know where, when, and who arrests Hannibal Lecter for the first time. This is the story of Red Dragon. ↗

— Dino De Laurentiis

#arrests #audience #dragon #first #first time

I couldn't imagine what Fox thought they were doing, contemplating such a jagged protagonist for a prime-time drama. I only knew that I wanted the role very much. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#doing #drama #fox #i #imagine