Brian Reid quotes

Brian Reid quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“In computer science, we stand on each other's feet.”
-- Brian Reid

#Feet Quotes #Intellectual Quotes #Computer Quotes

“I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before Mad Men.”
“TIME's Person of the Year for 2006, maintainer of a foot long beard”
“My new shorty got a gymnastic back, '87 emerald green on a classic Jag. She had the cleft palate, I ordered chef's salad; She had the club foot, with that little arm, I couldn't help but laugh...she ordered Chicken Parm.”
“When I'm in power, here's how I'm gonna put the country back on its feet. I'm going to put sterilizing agents in the following products: Sunny Delight, Mountain Dew, and Thick-Crust Pizza. Only the 'tardiest of the 'tards like the thick crust.”
“I started tapping and I was okay. Then after about two years my feet knew what they were doing!”
“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”
“My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.”
“The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.”
“I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place. It's coming from the deep side of your unconscious, your soul.”
“FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.”

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