All Quotes

Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.
‐‐ Alex North

Composing demands a degree of isolation.
‐‐ Cliff Martinez

Composing for movies is not an easy job - its a different art altogether, and moreover, I don't want to get involved in too many things at one time and want to concentrate on my shows and albums.
‐‐ Sivamani

Composing gives me a chance to work in multiple dimensions and helps me pare down my melodies into what is essential. Learning new skills has always energized me and scoring has opened up a world of sonic possibilities.
‐‐ Liz Phair

Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.
‐‐ Benjamin Britten

Composing is my life blood.
‐‐ Morton Gould

Composing is sort of an intuitive act. You have to put yourself in the right frame of mind.
‐‐ Howard Shore

Composing is what I love most from what I do. Each genre has a unique expression that you cannot supplant with another. All the records co-inspire each other though they are not tied conceptually in any way to another.
‐‐ Serj Tankian

Composing means you have a beginning, middle and end and a fluidity to what you're doing.
‐‐ Sandra Bullock

Composing music is hard work.
‐‐ John Williams

Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.
‐‐ Toru Takemitsu

Composition is definitely what I'm born to do, and it came last.
‐‐ David Friedman

Compost makes houseplants very happy.
‐‐ Shalom Harlow

Compound interest is proof of gods existence.
‐‐ Jeff Rich

Compounding the cost, most mapping software is processor-intense.
‐‐ Robert Love

Comprehensive climate legislation must be passed so that we can ensure a world where this and future generations can experience the bliss of breathing clean crisp air, while fishing in the Adirondacks... and being able to eat the fish afterwards.
‐‐ Gloria Reuben

Comprehensive immigration reform would reduce the deficit and help grow the economy.
‐‐ Scott Peters

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
‐‐ Hedy Lamarr

Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
‐‐ Madeleine M. Kunin

Compromise has a negative connotation.
‐‐ Abdolkarim Soroush

Compromise in colors is grey.
‐‐ Edi Rama

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
‐‐ Tryon Edwards

Compromise is moving in the right directlon more slowly than one might like.
‐‐ Grover Norquist

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
‐‐ Robert Louis Stevenson

Compromise is the key element. The more constraints you have, the more compromise you have to have. But, I personally believe that, when that happens, you have to get more creative, and you end up with something that is even better.
‐‐ Thomas Ian Nicholas

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
‐‐ James Russell Lowell

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.
‐‐ Gilbert K. Chesterton

Compromise works well in this world when you have shared goals.
‐‐ Jim DeMint

Compulsive eating is an emotional problem, and we use an emotional approach to its solution.
‐‐ Jean Nidetch

Compulsory arbitration is a practical instrument of pacification and, as such, it can and should be enacted by the Hague Conference.
‐‐ Charles Albert Gobat

Compunet was fantastic. You could upload these little demos of what you'd been working on, and it was a really nice social scene - years before the Internet.
‐‐ Jeff Minter

CompUSA was a bad decision. We stayed too much with CompUSA, and we stayed too short with Apple.
‐‐ Carlos Slim

Computation, storage, and communications capacity are in the hands of practically every connected person - and these are the basic physical capital means necessary for producing information, knowledge and culture, in the hands of something like 600 million to a billion people around the planet.
‐‐ Yochai Benkler

Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.
‐‐ Rudy Rucker

Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.
‐‐ Cai Guo-Qiang

Computer games tend to be boys' games, warlike games with more violence. We have not spent enough time thinking through how to encourage more girls to be involved in computing before coming to college so they can see a possible career in information technology.
‐‐ Freeman A. Hrabowski III

Computer hacking really results in financial losses and hassles. The objectives of terrorist groups are more serious. That is not to say that cyber groups can't access a telephone switch in Manhattan on a day like 9/11, shut it down, and therefore cause more casualties.
‐‐ Kevin Mitnick

Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.
‐‐ Piers Corbyn

Computer monitors can operate in many different video modes. In most cases, the decision about how many pixels and colors to display is yours - but not always.
‐‐ Charles Petzold

Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.
‐‐ Annie Leibovitz

Computer power grows according to Moore's law, as does the sophistication of handheld devices.
‐‐ Martin Rees

Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers - all of these fields, and more, should have at least a course in ethics as part of their degree requirements.
‐‐ Jamais Cascio

Computer programming has been traditionally seen as something that is beyond most people - it's only for a special group with technical expertise and experience. We have developed 'Scratch' as a new type of programming language, which is much more accessible.
‐‐ Mitchel Resnick

Computer programming is pretty much guaranteed income. I'm good at it, and I like it.
‐‐ Andy Weir

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
‐‐ Alan Perlis

Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science.
‐‐ Neil Gershenfeld

Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist.
‐‐ Steven Levy

Computer vision and machine learning have really started to take off, but for most people, the whole idea of what is a computer seeing when it's looking at an image is relatively obscure.
‐‐ Mike Krieger

Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatments are most effective.
‐‐ Temple Grandin