Mo Brooks Quotes

Even in this nuclear thing, [ Donald Trump] says we should be stronger and expand. What does that mean? So, what is concrete in what he's saying?

I happen to think most people go into government do it for the right reasons and they really do things as they see them on the merits of the issues.

Democrats in environmental agencies tend to be more sensitive to environmental harm. And Republicans tend to be more sensitive to business harm.

People who don't like Trump really don't like Trump. And I guess I'm among them.

Software work is the most complex that humanity has ever undertaken.

A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism.

Design work doesn't just satisfy requirements, it elicits them.

The programmer's primary weapon in the never-ending battle against slow system is to change the intramodular structure. Our first response should be to reorganize the modules' data structures.

Dissertations are not finished; they are abandoned.

Product procedure...must securely protect the crown jewels, but, equally important, it must eschew building high fences around the garbage cans.

Men and months are interchangeable commodities only when a task can be partitioned among many workers with no communication among them.

Process improvement is most valuable in raising the floor of a community's practice.

We tend to blame the physical media for most of our implementation difficulties; for the media are not "ours" in the way the ideas are, and our pride colors our judgement.

Plan to throw one (implementation) away; you will, anyhow.

...when fits of creativity run strong, more than one programmer or writer has been known to abandon the desktop for the more spacious floor.

Job Control Language is the worst programming language ever designed anywhere by anybody for any purpose.

The human spirit: Unbreakable. Relentless. Free.

Failure isn't failure if a lesson from it's learned. I guess love would not be love without a risk of being burned.

I think in between where you are and where you want to be is a sea of reasons why you can't get there.

No one will ever touch Elvis

If she were a president, she'd be Baberham Lincoln.

Life is not tried it is merely survived if you're standing outside the fire.

Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.

Too many times we stand aside, and let the waters slip away. Til what we put off til tomorrow has now become today.

I'm much too young to feel this damn old.

I've got friends in low places, where the whiskey drowns and the beer chases my blues away.

People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something.

No matter what you say you might do, you never really know until you're in the moment. Every situation is so different.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained, sometimes you've got to go against the grain.

You were standin' way too close to see it fall apart. And there were things you couldn't hear, 'cause you were listening with your heart.

I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.

A fan's love for an artist is so deep, I know I will go whatever depths it takes to learn about people that I'm in love with.

Singles are your safest songs on the records. Ones that piss fewer people off, that appeal more to the masses.

When we all can worship from our own kind of pew, then we shall be free.

One day I'll be standing at the river looking out across tomorrow, and the bridge I need to get there will be a bridge that I have burned.

James Taylor and God are the reasons I play music.

Noah took much ridicule building his great arc, but after 40 days and 40 nights he was looking pretty smart.

But you've got to be tough when consumed by desire, cause it's not enough just to stand outside the fire.

Someday in heaven, when the angels all sing, well, these rags that I'm wearing will be fit for a king.

I don't fly any awards at the house. Any award you get is usually for something you've done in the past. And I like to keep looking forward.

We treat the lyrics like the woman any man wants to impress the most. We give the lyrics all the attention we can. I'm not sure other formats are remembering that the lyrics are what it's all about.

And now, I'm glad I didn't know the way it all would end, the way it all would go. Our lives are better left to chance, I could've missed the pain, but I'd have had to miss the Dance.

Retail should never ever tell the copyright owner how their stuff is sold.

I asked if I could read for the role of Kevin Costner's caddy in Tin Cup. It was a fun learning experience, even though Cheech Marin got the part.

When you sit on something trying to preserve it, you die and become sterile.

There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.

I wore bell bottoms in elementary school. Never wore elephant bells. Remember, this was middle Oklahoma in the '70s.

Passion is something you'd easily die for. It's something you'd be honored to die for. It's something that's stronger than any machine man can create. It actually gives a mortal person wings.

I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.

Learning to live again without you is killing me.