“My parents were divorced and I didn't grow up with my father, but I spent a lot of time around him, and his influence on me has been profound.” Has BeensFatherGrowsParentGrowing UpInfluenceProfoundDivorced Author:Laura Linney
“When we take the position that it is not only the programmer's responsibility to produce a correct program but also to demonstrate its correctness in a convincing manner, then the above remarks have a profound influence on the programmer's activity: the object he has to produce must be usefully structured.” ResponsibilityInfluencePositionObjectsProduceActivityProgramProfoundConvincingRemarksProgrammersCorrectness Author:Edsger Dijkstra
“Whitman had a profound influence on me. That was during my sophomore year when I came down with a bad attack of Whitmanitis. But he did me a lot of good, and I think the influence is discoverable.” ThinkingYearsInfluenceProfoundSophomoreSophomore Year Author:Conrad Aiken
“The first book ever written in an alphabet was the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament. And the most important passage was the Ten Commandments. The first commandment is the most revolutionary sentence ever written. It states: "I am the Lord thy God there is no other." The second prohibits us from making images. Thus, there is a profound rejection of any goddess influence and a ban of representative art.” FirstsArtImportantBookStatesLordWrittenInfluenceTenProfoundSentencesRevolutionaryRejectionPassagesGoddessRepresentativesCommandmentsTestamentBansOld TestamentHebrewAlphabetTen CommandmentsHebrew Bible Author:Leonard Shlain
“While it is becoming increasingly obvious that the fundamental architecture of a system has a profound Influence on the quality of its human factors, the vast majority of human factors studies concern the surface of hardware (keyboards, screens) or the very surface of the software (command names, menu formats).” HumansNamesQualityStudyInfluenceBecomingConcernFundamentalsMajorityProfoundObviousSurfaceArchitectureScreensCommandFactorsSoftwareFormatKeyboardsHardwareMenus Author:Lewis M. Branscomb
“Godzilla. The big, green G-man has had a profound influence on my creative endeavors and imagination since I was blueberry-avoiding kid.” MenBigsKidsImaginationCreativeInfluenceGreenProfoundEndeavorAvoidingBlueberriesGodzilla Author:Jeremy Robinson
“The discovery of electrical waves... has had a profound influence on civilization; it has been instrumental in providing the methods which may bring all inhabitants of the world within hearing distance of each other and has potentialities social, educational and political which we are only beginning to realize.” WorldMayHas BeensPoliticalSocialRealizingInfluenceCivilizationDiscoveryMethodDistanceProfoundWaveEducationalHearingProvidingElectrical Author:Joseph John Thomson
“The profound unity of subjective existence and objective environment leads naturally to the idea that the life-force of one human being can affect other living beings and even the fundamental being of humankind as a whole. Furthermore, the minds of humankind fuse into one and exert a continuous influence, both physical and spiritual, on other living beings and on the whole of nature.” MindHumansIdeasWholeSpiritualForceHuman BeingsExistenceEnvironmentInfluenceFundamentalsUnityProfoundObjectivesHumankindSubjectiveFuse Book:Life: An Enigma, a Precious Jewel Source: Life: An Enigma, a Precious Jewel
“What we say has such a profound influence upon what we see, and hear, and taste of the world!” WorldInfluenceTasteProfound Author:David Abram
“The Bhagavad-Gita has a profound influence on the spirit of mankind by its devotion to God which is manifested by actions.” ActionSpiritInfluenceMankindProfoundDevotionGitaDevotion To God Author:Albert Schweitzer
“A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits.” ThinkingLanguageInfluenceHabitToolsProfoundProgrammingComputer ProgrammingProgramming Languages Author:Edsger Dijkstra
“For starters, I should just tell you that The Band was always my favorite band from the first moment that I heard the first note of "The Weight" on WNEW radio. It was when I was eight years old and Music From Big Pink came out. They were my favorite band always. They had a profound influence on me and on my becoming a musician.” ShouldYearsFirstsMomentsBigsHeardInfluenceBecomingBandMusicianWeightNotesProfoundMy FavoriteRadioEightStartersFavorite Bands Author:Colin Linden