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One of the advantages of having gone to Penn State was having had a scholar for a mentor - Philip Young. Also, a professional writer named Philip Klass taught there. He was a science fiction writer whose pseudonym was William Tenn. As a professional writer, he brought wisdom to teaching because he'd done it for a living.
‐‐ David Morrell

One of the advantages of having to live with JUnit for 8 years is now we can look back and see which decisions we made worked nicely and which we would have done differently.
‐‐ Kent Beck

One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it. What technologies tend to do is they tend to make a lot of mistakes... but then we go back and aggressively attack those mistakes - and fix them. And you usually recover pretty quickly.
‐‐ Marc Andreessen

One of the advantages of my profession is I come into contact with many people.
‐‐ Gerard Depardieu

One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you.
‐‐ Herbie Mann

One of the advantages of something like Slack is that I tap on the app icon, and it's just the people at my company and just the people I work with. There's a strong boundary there which aids in comprehension. It's one less molecule of glucose in my brain to manage it all.
‐‐ Stewart Butterfield

One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is that there's been time for people to report back on what it's done for them.
‐‐ Andrew Tobias

One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.
‐‐ Oren Peli

One of the advantages of travelling the world is that you get to know the world broadly. And one of the advantages of staying in one place is that you get to know the world deeply.
‐‐ Alan Moore

One of the Age of Enlightenment's most hypnotic images is Ledoux's rendering of his neoclassical theater of 1775 - 1784 in Besancon, surreally reflected in the colossal eye of an unidentified cosmic being.
‐‐ Martin Filler

One of the agonies of being an author is to know when to stop writing.
‐‐ Henning Mankell

One of the aims of higher education is to broaden perspectives, and what better way than by a home stay in a really different country, like Bangladesh or Senegal? Time abroad also leaves one more aware of the complex prism of suspicion through which the United States is often viewed.
‐‐ Nicholas Kristof

One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.
‐‐ Mortimer Adler

One of the album's songs features Mary J. Blige, but I don't want to talk too much about it yet. I think you will hear the music that's been playing in my head when it comes out.
‐‐ Chaka Khan

One of the amazing things about 'Seven Samurai' is that there are a lot of characters. And considering you have so many, and they all have shaved heads, and you've got good guys and bad guys and peasants, you get to understand a lot of them without too much being said.
‐‐ George Lucas

One of the amazing things about the Internet is that the content creators are the gatekeepers. We can think of an idea and execute it quickly, and we didn't have to pitch the idea to a major network or convince a studio head to sign-off on the concept.
‐‐ Ray William Johnson

One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people.
‐‐ Deborah Eisenberg

One of the annoying things when you're in a movie is that gets talked about is everyone projects meaning onto everyone's intentions.
‐‐ Heather Langenkamp

One of the appeals of markets, as a public philosophy, is they seem to spare us the need to engage in public arguments about the meaning of goods. So markets seem to enable us to be non-judgmental about values. But I think that's a mistake.
‐‐ Michael Sandel

One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.
‐‐ Danica Patrick

One of the arguments here at OLPC is, if 100 million kids could have an Asus running Windows, is that better with two million kids running the XO? And the answer is yes. We want kids connected and the largest possible number is the goal.
‐‐ Nicholas Negroponte

One of the aspects of form that I have been very interested in is stasis - the concept of form which is not so directional in time, not so much climactic form, but rather form which allows time, to stand still.
‐‐ La Monte Young

One of the attractions for me of having 'Watchmen' made into the first Motion Comic was just that - it was breaking new ground.
‐‐ Dave Gibbons

One of the attractions of translating 'Heroes' is that it's not the kind of play that I write. If it had been, I probably wouldn't have wanted to translate it. There are no one-liners. It's much more a truthful comedy than a play of dazzling wit.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

One of the attractive things about being in Scotland is that we have a very good pipeline of new people coming into the company from the excellent universities around us.
‐‐ David Milne

One of the attributes Glasgow is best known for all over the world is the friendliness of her people.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon

One of the awesome things about being a writer is that I can research nearly anything - tea? Bubblegum? Ants? Neurology? Chocolate? Textile production? It doesn't matter. It's all productive work.
‐‐ Ann Leckie

One of the bad things about being a filmmaker, about being me, is I can hardly read a book anymore because every time I read something, I have a poaching mentality, like, 'Oh, can this be a movie?'
‐‐ Derek Cianfrance

One of the banes of successful innovation is that companies may be so committed to innovation that they will give the innovators a lot of money to spend.
‐‐ Clayton M. Christensen

One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking.
‐‐ Margaret Chase Smith

One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior.
‐‐ Dian Fossey

One of the basic tenets of the working class is you want to get out of the working class.
‐‐ Michael Moore

One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.
‐‐ Edward Witten

One of the beauties of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters.
‐‐ Stellan Skarsgard

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.
‐‐ Nolan Ryan

One of the beautiful things about having kids is I had no idea how much it will make you look into yourself and who you are and what you believe in and what your past was like and all that kind of stuff. I think it's made me really look at life in a much more intense way.
‐‐ Jamie Cullum

One of the beautiful things about men is that they're very in the moment. That's why they don't want to have an argument about what happened six months ago.
‐‐ Tracy McMillan

One of the beautiful things about podcasting is that I'm not beholding to some public entity.
‐‐ Bryan Callen

One of the bedrock principles of physics is the conservation of energy. In this universe, energy can be neither created nor destroyed.
‐‐ Edward M. Lerner

One of the benefits for me of starting late in this business is I realised that if acting was the only thing I could do, I would struggle, so I always wrote as well.
‐‐ Sanjeev Bhaskar

One of the benefits of having an audience is that it requires a regimen, a need to create on a regular basis. I don't believe in waiting for the muse to visit.
‐‐ Keri Smith

One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you're allowed to fail.
‐‐ David Byrne

One of the benefits to ordering food in New York is that you can get food 24/7.
‐‐ David Chang

One of the benefits to television is that you're with these characters for years, you know them so well.
‐‐ Aleksa Palladino

One of the best and most responsible things a scientist can do is to write for the popular press.
‐‐ Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.
‐‐ Ralph Bakshi

One of the best aspects of health care reform is it starts to emphasize prevention.
‐‐ Anne Wojcicki

One of the best Christmas presents I ever got was the globe that I now keep right beside my desk.
‐‐ Tess Gerritsen

One of the best decisions we made on the 'Arrow' pilot was to have the Deathstroke mask. Within 30 seconds, you knew you were watching a DC comics show.
‐‐ Andrew Kreisberg

One of the best descriptions of the type of writer I am was given by Tom Paulin, who described himself as a 'binge' writer - like a binge drinker. I go on binges.
‐‐ Seamus Heaney