Crash Quotes - Page 15

• I remarked to Dennis that easily half the code I was writing in Multics was error recovery code. He said, "We left all that stuff out of Unix. If there's an error, we have this routine called panic, and when it is called, the machine crashes, and you holler down the hall, 'Hey, reboot it.'"

  Tom Van Vleck

  Writing, Recovery, Errors

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• Toyota has announced it will start integrating Microsoft technology into their vehicles. It's perfect for the person who wants a car that crashes every ten minutes.

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Technology, Perfect

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• Kids come up to me all the time and say, 'Once I was going through a really bad time, and I saw you crash and get up, and it inspired me.'

  Evel Knievel

  Inspirational, Kids, Saws

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• No one's gonna sympathize when we crash, they'll say you hit what you head for, you get what you ask.

  Ani DiFranco

  Politics, Asks

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• I was on 'Desperate Housewives' and that was my crash course on being on national television topless. Also, I do what I can in between scenes: push-ups, a little free weights. I knew going in it would be a big part of the show.

  Josh Henderson

  Would Be, Television, Weight

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• It is extraordinary how safe flying has become. You are now statistically more likely to be elected president of the United States in your lifetime than you are to die in a plane crash. What an amazing achievement as a society! But what we end up focusing on are the catastrophic failures that are incredibly rare but happen every now and then.

  Steven Johnson

  Achievement, Flying, President

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• We are strangely biased, as individuals and media institutions, to focus on big sudden changes, whether good or bad - amazing breakthroughs, such as a new gadget that gets released, or catastrophic failures, like a plane crash.

  Steven Johnson

  Media, Focus, Gadgets

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• Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write it, mostly technical things pertaining to craft.

  Rachel Kushner

  Writing, Years, Crafts

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• The joy of 'Crash' was that it was all about the work. It was my first real part. Before that, it was a line here and there, maybe a scene. 'Crash' was five scenes, a beautiful arc, a little vignette of my own. It really meant something.

  Michael Pena

  Beautiful, Real, Joy

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I see a lot of marriages crash and burn around me and my wife. I've always been curious about how hard it is to love well and be loved.

  Andre Dubus

  Wife, Curious, Wells

  Source: entertainmentrealm.com

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• I'm pretty confident about my sobriety, but I don't want to get too confident because that's when I'll crash.

  Mary Docter

  Inspirational, Sobriety, Want

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• Writers have to get used to launching something beautiful and watching it crash and burn. They also have to learn when to let go control, when the work takes off on its own and flies, farther than they ever planned or imagined, to places they didn't know they knew.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Beautiful, Letting Go, Writing

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• It is always easier to capture eternity in the falling snow or along the coast where the waves crash and in solitary and lonely places. It is the quiet places where it is easiest to feel eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Lonely, Nature, Fall

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• I created a show called 'Crash' for Starz, which was their first original drama, and that was not a good experience. I had a great time working with the cast and crew, but it was a young network and an intrusive studio, and to be honest I didn't really enjoy the movie 'Crash.

  Glen Mazzara

  Drama, Firsts, Honest

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• The problem is, is when your focus is created by a crisis, then the frontal lobe shuts down essentially, the frontal cortex which is your intuitive intelligence. So you get very clever and very stupid in a crisis. Also, you pump adrenalin into your body from what you - physiologically you'll crash.

  David Allen

  Clever, Stupid, Focus

  Source: www.stephanspencer.com

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• I'm definitely a night owl. I get going about the time my wife crashes and goes to bed. And in some sense, I've had to learn to be more of a cat napper in recent years because Perl development, Perl design and development, has become a worldwide phenomenon - not just mailing lists, but RSC channels, Twitter even. This all happens 24 hours a day. And people come up with questions at any time of the day or night.

  Larry Wall

  Cat, Night, Years

  "How to Code Like Larry Wall". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• When a jumbo jet crashes, we will rush in with assistance, but we forget that each day 30,000 children die unnecessarily from poverty-related preventable causes - equivalent to 100 jumbo jets crashing every day.

  Benjamin Mkapa

  Children, Each Day, Poverty

  "In Quotes: UN World Summit". news.bbc.co.uk. September 16, 2005.

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• The last I knew you were going to a party. just a few friends at the McEvoys' you told me. The science club, you told me. What happened? You got into a fight about the theory of relativity? Did creationists crash the party and start a rumble?

  Tami Hoag

  Party, Fighting, Clubs

  Tami Hoag (2013). “The 9th Girl”, p.35, Penguin

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• What the members of the Church need, more than anything else, are strong testimonies of Jesus Christ and the gospel He restored. They need to know. And they need to know that they know. This is the best protection against the tsunami of temptations and the waves of immorality that crash against us. Perhaps this is just another reason why the first principle of the gospel is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ!

  John Bytheway

  Jesus, Strong, Temptation

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• I find titles the hardest thing. I was worried that 'Waste Land' was too much of a downer. For me, 'The Crash Reel' confronts what the film is about: it's not just about the reality of a crash, it's about the extremity we all face, and what happens when life crashes on you.

  Lucy Walker

  Reality, Land, Titles

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• Like riding a bike for the first time, sometimes you just have to go for it. If you keep looking forwards and maintain your momentum, it will probably go well. But if you start to doubt yourself and look back, you are more likely to suffer a major wobble followed by a crash.

  Roz Savage

  Doubt, Suffering, Riding

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• We have to tell the American public that they're missing the boat, that they have to get into writing and reading. Not only that, but books won't crash in the year 2000.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Rationalism crashes in the tails.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Tails, Rationalism

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• My father was a very successful businessman, but he was ruined in the stock market crash. A big stockbroker jumped out the window and fell on his pushcart.

  Jackie Mason

  Father, Successful, Window

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• Experiments that crash atoms together could start a chain reaction that erodes everything on Earth.

  Martin Rees

  Together, Atoms, Earth

  Martin J. Rees (2003). “Our final century: a scientist's warning : how terror, error, and environmental disaster threaten humankind's future in this century - on Earth and beyond”, Vintage

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