#mm

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#continuing #his #measure #noting #perspective

As a scientist, you feel a sense of team spirit for your country but you also have a sense of team spirit for the international community. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

#community #country #feel #international #international community

It's an unusual opportunity, a chance for so many people to share in the excitement and the fun of the fact that we may be on to hints as to what the Universe is made out of. I guess the whole point of a prize like this is to be able to get that out into the community. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

#chance #community #excitement #fact #fun

I stand before you today as a disciplined conservative Texan, a committed Republican and a proud American, united with you to restoring our nation and revive the American dream. ↗

— Rick Perry

#american dream #before #committed #conservative #disciplined

But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each has a justification for his actions that is convincing to him. It's fun to give these people voices. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#actions #character #commonplace #convincing #each

The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#characters #common #good #good person #into

I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive. ↗

— Tyler Perry

#boy #face #i #just #name

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#american #changed #child #force #immovable

Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#become #committees #important #nowadays #work

Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so wonderful to find. ↗

— Bernadette Peters

#everything #find #great #great truth #hammerstein