My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic. Spike Milligan
The ALGOL compiler was probably one of the nicest pieces of code to come out at that time. I spent hours trying to fix and change the compiler. Working with it so closely affected the way I think about programming and had a profound influence on my style. Gary Kildall
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. Lewis M. Branscomb
Whitman had a profound influence on me. ... He was useful to me in the perfection of form, as a sort of compromise between the strict and the free. Conrad Aiken
His blend of sensitivity and detachment, elegance, wit, and learning, had a profound influence on later Roman poets, especially Catullus, Ovid, and Propertius (the last thought of himself as the Roman Callimachus), and through them on the whole European literary tradition. Callimachus
I think my Buddhist practice has a profound influence on my life and encompasses my creative projects. Duncan Sheik