When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes; and yet she will be woman still.
Regular panelists on shows can be terrifying. They own that space, and many guest comics suspect they are favoured in the edit, while their own hilarious jokes end up being ejected into the ether.
Our music is never going to stop someone from bullying someone else. But you should be your own person.
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.
You know, we do not want the militarization of Haiti. We do not see a Haitian as a protectorate where it relinquishes its own sovereignty.
When people are grieving, it's kind of like a storm, and you need something to grab onto, but often you have to brave it on your own.
This past year has been something else... it's opened my eyes to many things and many people. It's had its ups and downs and ins and outs. And I believe we've all been able to take something from that and grow in our own imparticular ways. We've over come obstacles, and set in motion opportunities that can change our own individual lives.
To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.
The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.
And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.
When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.
My dream is to have a baby, not to adopt one, because I am not up to it and I don't feel strong enough. I want my own child, a biological child, the fruit of my sperm, conceived through artificial insemination because it wouldn't make sense for me to make love to a woman I don't love.
In Spain and Italy I would not have a life among the fans. Everyone wants to touch you, own you and approach you. I try to be as kind as possible to all my fans, but in those countries I could not do it. There they ask too much from you.
The United States has it's own propaganda, but it's very effective because people don't realize that it's propaganda. And it's subtle, but it's actually a much stronger propaganda machine than the Nazis had but it's funded in a different way.
The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
My work has always been controversial within certain segments of the Asian-American community. This is a community that is generally not represented well at all on the stage, in the media, etc. So on those few occasions when something comes along, everybody feels obligated to make sure that it represents his own point of view.
There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that.
My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
Some of his own closeness to nature, his great love for human beings, was passed on by Whitman to all of us who knew and loved him.
If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.'
It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.
We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.
A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.
This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying we're not satisfied just watching television, we want to star in our own TV shows. We want you to discover us and put us in your own TV show, and we want television to be about us, finally.
In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I'm this hunk.
Nature is good at connectivity. The impact of diverse human activities is observed and absorbed throughout nature. Everything is linked. Nature has no problem with coherence. Ecosystems react with their own logic.
I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.
But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section.
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
After my own for instance, my favourite is Princess Leia.
The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.
In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
