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Konrad Zuse (1910-1995)

Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse (June 22, 1910 – December 18, 1995)was a German civil engineer, pioneering computer scientist, inventor and businessman. His greatest achievement was the world's first programmable computer; the functional program-controlled Turing-complete Z3 became operational in May 1941. Thanks to this machine and its predecessors, Zuse is regarded by some as the inventor and father of the modern computer.[1]

Quotes·Quotations by Konrad Zuse

Computers

¶ The rattling of the relays of the Z4 was the only interesting thing to be experienced in Zurich's night life!

Attributed to Zuse in: Ra L Rojas, Ulf Hashagen (2002) The First Computers: History and Architectures. p.270.[2]

¶ Die Gefahr, dass der Computer so wird wie der Mensch, ist nicht so groß wie die Gefahr, dass der Mensch so wird wie der Computer.

Translation: The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers.

Attributed in: Hersfelder Zeitung. Nr. 212, 12. September 2005.

Researchers

¶ Der Glaube an eine bestimmte Idee gibt dem Forscher den Rückhalt für seine Arbeit. Ohne diesen Glauben wäre er verloren in einem Meer von Zweifeln und halbgültigen Beweisen.

Translation: The belief in a certain idea gives to the researcher the support for his work. Without this belief he would be lost in a sea of doubts and insufficiently verified proofs.

Attributed in Konrad Zuse on "Die Erfindergalerie", dpma.de, 2008.

Images


Konrad Zuse in 1992

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse

[2] http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse

Zsa Zsa Gabor (1917-2016)

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Zsa Zsa Gabor (/ˌʒɑːʒɑː ˈɡɑːbɔːr/, Hungarian: [ˈɡaːbor ˈʒɒʒɒ]; born Sári Gábor [ˈɡaːbor ˈʃaːri]; February 6, 1917 – December 18, 2016) was a Hungarian-American socialite and actress. Her sisters were actresses Eva Gabor and Magda Gabor.[1]

Quotes·Quotations by Zsa Zsa Gabor

Devorce

¶ Zsa Zsa Gabor made devorce an art form, once quipping: "I am a marvelous Housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zsa_Zsa_Gabor

William Alland (1916-1997)

William Alland (1916-1997)

William Alland (March 4, 1916 – November 11, 1997) was an American actor, producer, writer and director of science fiction and western films. He is perhaps best known for his role as reporter Jerry Thompson, who investigates the life of newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane in Orson Welle's Citizen Kane. In his early 20s, he arrived in Manhattan and took courses at the Henry Street Settlement House, where he met Orson Welles. He also lent his voice to Welles' The War of the Worlds. Alland won a Peabody Award as producer of Doorway to Life.

Alland's role as reporter Thompson in Citizen Kane is noted most importantly because the camera never closes up on his face; in fact, for the majority of his scenes in the film, he shows his back to the camera, and whenever his face can be seen, it is always in long-shot and almost always clouded in shadow. As noted by film critic Roger Ebert on the DVD commentary of Citizen Kane, Alland once reportedly told an entire audience of people that they would probably recognize him if he were to show his back to them.

Quotes·Quotation by William Alland

William Alland as Jerry Thompson from Citizen Kane (1941)

¶ I don't think any word can explain a man's life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Alland

Walter Brooke (1914-1986)

Walter Brooke (1914-1986)

Walter Brooke (October 23, 1914 – August 20, 1986) was an American actor. Brooke is best known for playing Mr. McGuire in The Graduate, where he said his famous line, "Plastics".

He is also remembered for playing district attorney Frank Scanlon in the television series The Green Hornet. Brooke appeared on stage in the 1957 production of Hide and Seek at the Shubert Theatre in Washington, D.C.

Brooke died from emphysema on August 20, 1986, aged 71.

Quotes·Quotations by Walter Brooke

Walter Brooke as Mr. Mcguire from The Graduate (1967)

¶ Plastics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Brooke

Vivien Leigh (1913-1967)

Vivien Leigh (1913-1967)

Vivien Leigh, Lady Olivier (5 November 1913 – 8 July 1967) was an English actress. She won the Best Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), a role she also played on stage in London's West End, as well as for her portrayal of the southern belle Scarlett O'Hara, alongside Clark Gable, in the epic American Civil War drama Gone with the Wind.

She was a prolific stage performer, frequently in collaboration with her then-husband, Laurence Olivier, who directed her in several of her roles. During her 30-year stage career, she played roles ranging from the heroines of Noël Coward and George Bernard Shaw comedies to classic Shakespearean characters such as Ophelia, Cleopatra, Juliet and Lady Macbeth.

Lauded for her beauty, Leigh felt that it sometimes prevented her from being taken seriously as an actress. However, ill health proved to be her greatest obstacle. For much of her adult life Leigh suffered from bipolar disorder. She earned a reputation for being difficult to work with, and her career suffered periods of inactivity. She also suffered recurrent bouts of chronic tuberculosis, first diagnosed in the mid-1940s. Leigh and Olivier divorced in 1960, and she worked sporadically in film and theatre until her death from tuberculosis in 1967.

She is ranked 16th on AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars list, unveiled on 15 June 1999 by the American Film Institute.

Quotes·Quotation by Vivien Leigh

Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara from Gone with the Wind (1939)

¶ As God is my witness, as God is my witness they're not going to lick me. I'm going to live through this and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.

¶ I can't let him go. I can't. There must be some way to bring him back. Oh, I can't think about this now! I'll go crazy if I do! I'll think about it tomorrow. But I must think about it. I must think about it. What is there to do? What is there that matters? Tara! Home. I'll go home. And I'll think of some way to get him back. After all... tomorrow is another day!

Vivien Leigh as Blanche DuBois from A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

¶ Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivien_Leigh

Pat Welsh (1915–1995)

Pat Welsh (1915–1995)

Pat Welsh (February 11, 1915 – January 26, 1995) was an American film actress, known as the voice of E.T. in the 1982 film E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.

Quotes·Quotation by Pat Welsh

Pat Welsh as E.T. from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

¶ E.T. phone home.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Welsh_(actress)

Orson Welles (1915-1985)

Orson Welles (1915-1985)

George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, writer and producer who worked extensively in theater, radio and film. He is best remembered for his innovative work in all three media, most notably Caesar (1937), a groundbreaking Broadway adaption of Julius Caesar and the debut of the Mercury Theatre; The War of the Worlds (1938), the most famous broadcast in the history of radio; and Citizen Kane (1941), which many critics and scholars name as the best film of all time.

After directing a number of high-profile theatrical productions in his early twenties, including an innovative adaptation of Macbeth and The Cradle Will Rock, Welles found national and international fame as the director and narrator of a 1938 radio adaptation of H. G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds performed for the radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was reported to have caused widespread panic when listeners thought that an invasion by extraterrestrial beings was occurring. Although these reports of panic were mostly false and overstated, they rocketed Welles to instant notoriety.

His first film was Citizen Kane (1941), which he co-wrote, produced, directed, and starred in as Charles Foster Kane. It is often considered the greatest film ever made. Welles was always an outsider to the studio system and directed only 13 full-length films in his career. While he struggled for creative control in the face of studios, many of his films were heavily edited and others were left unreleased. His distinctive directorial style featured layered and nonlinear narrative forms, innovative uses of lighting such as chiaroscuro, unusual camera angles, sound techniques borrowed from radio, deep focus shots, and long takes. He has been praised as a major creative force and as "the ultimate auteur." Welles followed up Citizen Kane with other critically acclaimed films, including The Magnificent Ambersons in 1942, and Touch of Evil in 1958.

In 2002, Welles was voted the greatest film director of all time in two separate British Film Institute polls among directors and critics, and a wide survey of critical consensus, best-of lists, and historical retrospectives calls him the most acclaimed director of all time. Well known for his baritone voice, Welles was also a well regarded actor and was voted number 16 in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars list of the greatest American film actors of all time. He was also a celebrated Shakespearean stage actor and an accomplished magician, starring in troop variety shows in the war years.

Quotes·Quotation by Orson Welles

Orson Welles as Charles Foster Kane from Citizen Kane (1941)

¶ Rosebud.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Welles

Iris Murdoch (1919-1999)

Iris Murdoch (1919-1999)

Dame Iris Murdoch DBE (15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Irish-born British author and philosopher, best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, Under the Net, was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 1987, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. In 2008, The Times ranked Murdoch twelfth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".[1]

Quotes·Quotations by Iris Murdoch

Art

¶ All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

¶ Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

¶ But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.

Happiness

¶ My happiness has a sad face, so sad that for years I took it for my unhappiness and drove it away.

Love

¶ Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

¶ Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

¶ We can only learn to love by loving.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_Murdoch

Mother Teresa (1910-1997)

Mother Teresa (1910-1997)

Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu ( pronounced [aɡˈnɛs ˈɡɔndʒa bɔjaˈdʒiu]; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), more commonly known as Mother Teresa, was a Roman Catholic nun of Albanian ethnicity and Indian citizenship, who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India, in 1950. For over 45 years, she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying, while guiding the Missionaries of Charity's expansion, first throughout India and then in other countries. Following her death, she was beatified by Pope John Paul II and given the title "Blessed Teresa of Calcutta".

Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity at the time of her death had 610 missions in 123 countries including hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis, soup kitchens, children's and family counselling programmes, orphanages and schools. She received numerous awards including the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, and the Bharat Ratna in 1980.

Quotes·Quotation

Advice

¶ If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa

Laurence J. Peter (1919-1990)

Laurence J. Peter (1919-1990)

Dr. Laurence Johnston Peter (September 16, 1919 – January 12, 1990) was an educator and "hierarchiologist", best known to the general public for the formulation of the Peter Principle.

Quotes·Quotations by Laurence J. Peter

Beauty

¶ Every girl should use beauty that Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_J._Peter

Roland Barthes (1915-1980)

Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes (November 12, 1915 – March 25, 1980) was a French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and semiotician.

Automobiles and transport

@ I think cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals. I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.
Roland Barthes' The New Citroën (1957)

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Roland_Barthes

Eva Gabor (1919-1995)

Eva Gabor (1919-1995)

Éva Gábor (11 February 1919 – 4 July 1995) was a Hungarian-born American socialite and actress. She was widely known for her role on the 1965 to 1971 television sitcom, Green Acres as Lisa Douglas, the wife of Eddie Albert's character, Oliver Wendell Douglas. She portrayed Duchess in the 1970 Disney film The Aristocats, and Miss Bianca in Disney's The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under. Gábor had success as an actress in film, Broadway and television; she was also successful in business, marketing wigs, clothing, and beauty products. Her elder sisters, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Magda Gabor, were also American actresses and socialites.

Quotes·Quotation by Eva Gabor

Love

¶ Love is a game that two can play and both win.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Gabor

Phyllis Brooks (1915-1995)

Brooks
in 1939

Phyllis Brooks

Phyllis Brooks (July 18, 1915 – August 1, 1995) was an American actress and model. She was born in Boise, Idaho. Some sources have also inaccurately cited 1914 as her year of birth, but 1915 is the correct year according to Social Security records.[1]

Quotes·Quotations by Phyllis Brooks

Quotes·Quotations by Phyllis Brooks as Lola Lee from Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)

Shoot

¶
Man: Lola, there’s something I’ve been wanting to tell you.
Lola: Let’s have it. Shoot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Brooks

Bernard Bailey (1916-1996)

Bernard Bailey (1916-1996)

Bernard Baily (April 5, 1916 – January 19, 1996)[3][4] was an American comic book artist best known as co-creator of the DC Comics characters the Spectre and Hourman, and a comics publisher, writer, and editor.

Quotes·Quotations by Bernard Bailey

Universe

¶ When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.

References

[1]^ "United States Social Security Death Index," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JKRQ-Q2W : accessed 20 Feb 2013), Bernard Baily, 19 January 1996; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
[2]^ a b c d Bails, Jerry; Hames Ware. "Bernard Baily". Who's Who of American Comic Books 1928-1999. Archived from the original on July 23, 2010.
[3]^ a b Bernard Baily at the Social Security Death Index. Archived from the original on March 8, 2012.
[4]^ a b Bernard Baily at the Lambiek Comiclopedia. Archived from the original on November 23, 2009.
[5]^ a b c d e Bernard Baily at the Grand Comics Database

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Baily

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