#influence

My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#concentrate #could #decisive #details #essential

Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me. ↗

— Reese Witherspoon

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I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#collaborator #i #influences #like #nature

I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons. ↗

— Marguerite Young

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Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine? ↗

— Marguerite Young

#been #bible #experimental #influenced #saint

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#politics #power #realm #relative

I haven't really met anyone else who has influenced me, but you never know, it could happen next year or next month. I just like to go with the spur of the moment. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#could #else #go #happen #haven

The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#bee #bee gees #been #black #black music

In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically. ↗

— Dexter Gordon

#influence #jazz #lot

I don't really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, I'm not a typical bluegrass bass player. I was really into the Grateful Dead, and I still am - I don't listen to them too much, but for me they are a big influence. ↗

— Mike Gordon

#am #bass #bass player #big #big influence