A. O. Scott Quotes
We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements.
My father taught me not to overthink things, that nothing will ever be perfect, so just keep moving and do your best.
All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.
If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.
If poor people are spending their own money, it is amazing how fast they will figure out how to keep a lid on medical bills.
It's a werewolf movie with Christina Ricci, and it was a chance to work with some good people. But playing yourself is always fairly risky because you gotta watch how you goof on yourself.
There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours.
My goal as a puzzle designer is to create a meaningful experience for the player, not just 'I solved it.'
My story is a freedom song of struggle. It is about finding one's purpose, how to overcome fear and to stand up for causes bigger than one's self.
If it doesn't have a full delay or defund of Obamacare, I know I and many others will not be able to support whatever the leadership proposes.
Orrin Hatch is old enough to be my father, and I don't want my father running the United States Senate Finance Committee.
Quality health care services must be accessible and affordable for all - not just those in certain ZIP codes or tax brackets.
Immortality may be impossible, but imagine what humanity could learn if we all lived 700 years. We could travel deep into utopia and beyond.
Mom somehow made it to every one of my graduations - even when it meant she had to travel far away.
There are few aspects of everyday life that aren't touched by the technologies developed for space travel.
On Thanksgiving Night, 1942, when I was fifteen years old, white racists burned our house to the ground.
My mother taught me to be honest, to be selfless, and to touch people in a positive way.
I'm fundamentally a positive person. Otherwise, I wouldn't be doing some of the insane movies that I do.
Technology continues to bring us wondrous advances in filmmaking to improve how we view movies.
My entertainment was going to the local dollar movie theatre on the weekend, where I watched old black and white movies. If you wanted current movies, you had to drive to the big city.
The more frightening and sort of dark and oppressive a movie is, the more free you are to explore the supernatural and explore faith. The two just somehow go hand-in-hand really nicely.
With the clothes I design, I think about my friends, how I'd want them to dress, what I'd want them to wear.
There has to be absolute trust between the tiger and its master, but its master must be the master - there must be no mistake about that.
People don't place their trust in government or company pension plans they have to be self-reliant.
The real world has always been far more exciting and funny and dangerous to me than anything somebody could conjure up sitting in front of a computer.
With any kind of sci-fi, the imagination continues, and the world exists, and you create that in your own mind, and it lives in you.
I want my clothes to have a life and then end up in a secondhand store, where some cool girl discovers them 20 years later. If the runway or red carpet is the only life clothes have, it's sad.
To understand the future of technology, we need to begin with one fundamental truth: Technology is natural.
Technology will mirror the culture and the psychology creating it. We need new psychological scaffolding to work with. Less fear and more optimism.
As a filmmaker, deep blacks are essential, and in my experience, no technology captures those attributes as well as Plasma.
The U.K. has to keep investing in new technology, skills, and infrastructure to keep pace with international competition.
Negative and pessimistic views of technology have always existed. I can just imagine some pessimistic Sumerian in 3500 B.C. screaming about the evils of the wheel.
The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it.
My mom never went to college, but for her own children, getting a great education was not an option.
Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.
If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction.
Sometimes people have questioned whether I was making fun of the industry or just at myself. I'm just trying to raise a smile. Clothes aren't meant to be worshipped at a church altar.
As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
Is there climate change? I live in the shadow of some of the greatest climate change the world has ever seen. It's called the Rocky Mountains. When the glaciers went back.
There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
My job is to interpret the law based on how the legislature and the court has done it and then, of course, to use our system of justice to develop some new legal tools and new concepts.
We're involved right now in some very significant legal battles and it would be the wrong thing for me to do to step out in the middle of those battles.