Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim O'Reilly

A lot of the websites built through the 1990s used Perl. The first webmaster of Sun Microsystems coined a wonderful phrase. He said Perl is the duck tape of the Internet - it's this language that people would write all these scripts that make things just work.

Alexander Payne

Omaha, like Rome, is built on seven hills.

Barbara Bush

I really built myself up, darn it, to be very strong.

Zubin Mehta

In Bombay, we have a fine concert hall. I think it is high time we built venues in Delhi and Calcutta, not only for western music, but also Indian music. It doesn't matter which party is in power; don't you think the capital of India should have a concert hall?

Zach Galifianakis

Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.

Windows were the first thing we made ourselves. Other products, such as cement and plasterboard, came later. Some of the factories we actually built because of union blockades trying to stop us getting supplies.

We didn't do a very good job of executing our half-court offense in the second half, but fortunately, we had built such a big lead that we were able to hang on.

Leon Bridges

Dance really built my confidence on stage. I'm still a shy person. But I have a lot more confidence than I did when I started.

Sharon Jones

At first, they told me it was just bile-duct cancer, but once they went in, they removed the gallbladder, the head of my pancreas, and a foot-and-a-half of my small intestine, and built me another bile duct and connected it to my stomach. It turned out to be pancreatic cancer, stage two, so, very aggressive.

Sal Albanese

I'd love to have our trains, our subway cars and our taxis built right here in New York City. You can create 40,000 living wage jobs... the city's contracting power is huge.

Jamais Cascio

Back in the 1500s, the culture that we had built in the West embraced multigenerational projects quite easily. Notre Dame. Massive cathedrals were not built over the course of a few years, they were built over a few generations. People who started building them knew they wouldn't be finished until their grandson was born.

We need to understand what innovation will be built on top of our networks.

Elliott Abrams

I don't think a Palestinian state is going to be created at a conference table; it will be created on the ground in the West Bank, and some day, a peace conference will ratify that which has been built on the ground.

Eric S. Raymond

As a Facebook user, do I have control of the data Facebook keeps about me? Concretely: can I examine and modify that data using tools of my choosing which are built for my needs?

Eduardo Paes

In Rio we built a Center of Operations, a situation room that gathers information from municipal departments and allows us to manage and help decision-making. I can check the weather, the traffic and the location of city's waste collection trucks. Each of 4,000 buses in the city has a camera connected to the situation room.

Historically, royal families have represented an institution. The institution is built on heritage, and is timeless in that sense.

Meles Zenawi

We have built tens of thousands of schools, clinics and rural roads.

Lakshmi Mittal

I built a steel plant from the grassroots, so I learned all the nuts and bolts. When there was a problem, I would be able to guide them, though I am not a technical person.

We had no desk; we had nothing. So we were using these boxes. We built our own desk setup and used it for 60 days. That's how deep it was when we first came.

Chris King

When they built the first one in 1981, they didn't have the technology to do much. They tried to play with color and form, but they were pretty much stuck with a box.

We need to fight violence and ignorance. It is true: when one strolls out, one sees women with scarves and men with beards. This has always been the case in Morocco. Morocco is built on tolerance.

You know all those extra lines of code that we sometimes refer to as bloatware. It's actually very important and efficient stuff. There is some very substantial functionality built into the operating system.

Helene D. Gayle

In Nueva Esperanza, Honduras, community members pooled their resources and organized a local water committee that with CARE's technical guidance built a gravity-fed water system that now provides clean water directly to people's homes.

Helmut Lang

I think the history and the past we have is just an energy we've built up to do what we do now.

Our kids just have fun. We're built for ski racing.

Overton being a top player is a no-brainer. He played at a real high level this year. He's not a real big rah-rah guy, just a quiet kid who went about his job. Championship teams are built upon guys like him. A lot of guys deserved it, but you can't go wrong with him as player of the year.

Bill Owen

Our results demonstrate solid progress in our next-generation businesses, ... I am pleased that Nortel can now move from this phase of stabilization with the foundation we've built over the last 19 months.

Our team is very committed to gaining speed, so the fact that we built energy early on really helped us move faster. It's a great position to be in.

Our focus is on staying in South Florida, that's our only goal. Five of the last seven new (major league) ballparks were built after teams started to relocate and didn't.

Our global economy is built on establishing strategic communications, ... The U.S. and the Netherlands have a great deal in common including a creative spirit.

Our contract with him is built on the fact that if we do well, he does well, too.

Our U.S. and Canadian distribution teams performed well and built on the momentum they generated in the second half of fiscal 2005.

People have told us that no true full-service hotels have been built in suburban cities in years, maybe decades,