#pro

There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity. ↗

— Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

#development #either #even #improvement #itself

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#form #grew #i #in the past #narrative

To establish justice and to promote the general welfare, America does not need the abortion license. ↗

— Robert Casey

#america #does #establish #general #general welfare

As I discovered, even the governor of a major state who holds pro-life views can be denied a hearing at his party's convention without the national media protesting it. ↗

— Robert Casey

#denied #discovered #even #governor #hearing

Indeed, an entire generation of Americans has grown to adulthood since the Roe decision of 1973, which held that the right to choose an abortion was a privacy right protected by our Constitution. ↗

— Robert Casey

#adulthood #choose #constitution #decision #entire

My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth. ↗

— Barbara Stanwyck

#different way #fallen #female #finding #fortieth

There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#had #humiliating #law #mainly #means

I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv. ↗

— Elizabeth Banks

#comedy #i #i love #improv #love

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life. ↗

— Russell Banks

#become #honest #imaginative #intelligent #life

Hollywood is going to have to find a way of meeting those profit goals. ↗

— Peter Bart

#goals #going #hollywood #meeting #profit