#wall

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones. ↗

— Donald Knuth

#art #build #computer #computer science #doing

There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice. ↗

— Boris Kodjoe

#been #certain #certain point #choice #decide

I think this is all my life. Because if I was split gymnastics and something else like far, fun or to go with friends. No, this, you're supposed to one go, one straight road and to do every day. And touch the wall, of the goal. ↗

— Olga Korbut

#day #else #every #every day #far

Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed. ↗

— David Korten

#fabric #need #removed #sees #social

At some point he seemed to lose all confidence trying to break down the Berlin Wall. He was still fighting as only Kasparov can, but I could see it in his eyes that he knew he wasn't going to win one of these games. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#berlin wall #break #confidence #could #down

I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street. ↗

— Henry Kravis

#california #car #college #drive #economics

But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain. ↗

— Paul Krugman

#company #fact #funny #in fact #men

A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#beginning #between #dance #i #insisted

My boyfriend and I just got a projector, so we've been screening movies on the roof and projecting them against the wall next door. The last one we did, the theme was, 'The Russians are coming.' So we screened 'Red Dawn' and 'Top Gun.' ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#been #boyfriend #coming #dawn #did

My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#around #begged #beyond #choosing #could