Cliff Shaw famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It's the little things that count, hundreds of them.
-- Cliff Shaw

#Littles #Little Things #Counting
To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality.
-- Cliff Shaw

#Communication #Personality #Information

It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.
I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.
I like to zoom out of the situation so I can see it all and don't get caught up in the little things down there.
Everyone expects us to have a sense of urgency for life's big things. Life measures us by how we engage ourselves in the little things.
Man, if I can get a burp out of that little thing I feel such a sense of accomplishment.
It's the little things that count, hundreds of them.
And marking off time struck me as something like counting empty spacesâ€”spaces you know can't ever be filled.
One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.
Love... love... love, never counting the cost.
A girl is grown up when she stops counting on her fingers and starts counting on her legs.

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