#tent

I used to do the beat box. A friend of mine, he was the rapper and after, we'd be doing a block party or something or a house party, and he's gettin' all the attention and I'd end up with a handful of spit, you know, from doing the beats. ↗

— DMX

#attention #beat #beats #block #box

If it didn't happen in your life before, then you're not paying attention you don't think it's possible. But almost all important events never happen in your life before. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#attention #before #events #happen #important

My high-school dream was to be in a band, pay my rent and eat - and I've been able to do that for 20 years. So I'm completely content. ↗

— Evan Dando

#band #been #completely #content #dream

The state of our state needs serious attention. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#needs #our #serious #state

There is nothing inconsistent about having a conservative outlook and being vigorous. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#being #conservative #having #inconsistent #nothing

I tell people that I've now done one decent thing in my life. Albeit inadvertently. ↗

— Larry David

#decent #done #i #inadvertently #life

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#beyond #exposure #good #had #hope

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#avoids #aware #clever #competent #full

Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event. ↗

— George Gissing

#event #familiar #persistent #prophecy #way

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#clever #existing #nine-tenths #nonsense