#ten

Every program has two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#every #program #purposes #two #which

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#against #attention #critical #detail #devoting

Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled. ↗

— Itzhak Perlman

#because #child #get #gifted #handled

For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them. ↗

— Itzhak Perlman

#before #burned #child #child prodigy #even

I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different perspectives and listen with different ears. The most important thing that you need to do is really listen. ↗

— Itzhak Perlman

#conducting #different #different perspectives #doing #each

Independent film is almost nonexistent right now, because all the distributers that used to love to put out these little art films are all out of business right now, because it costs so much to open a movie. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#art #because #business #costs #film

My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten. ↗

— Evita Peron

#fear #forgotten #life

If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out. ↗

— Ross Perot

#country #desert #going #limited #little

A lawyer, a politician, and a prostitute walk into a bar, and the bartender says, “Sorry, we don’t serve your kind here.” And I’d have to agree. Serves them right for being so sleazy. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #lawyer #politician #prostitute #sleazy

There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read. ↗

— Ross Perot

#living #read #things #two #worth