Daniel H. Wilson Quotes
There are an endless number of things to discover about robotics. A lot of it is just too fantastic for people to believe.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.
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I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.
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Chinese people today have strong demand for culture, but we need effective supply, and China needs innovative cultural products.
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A lot of the people of the Midwest came from the Northeast. We're of the same stock. Yet something must have happened when we crossed the Ohio River Valley because I have sensed that there's more of an openness and flexibility of spirit out West.
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Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.
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There is an instinctive understanding that the cultural, social and political development of a nation is a dynamic process which has to be given purpose and direction by drawing on tradition as well as by experiment, innovation and a willingness to evaluate both old and new ideas objectively.
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The cruel ambush of 9/11 supposedly 'changed everything,' slapping us back to reality. Yet we are constantly shocked, shocked by the foreseeable.
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There are an endless number of things to discover about robotics. A lot of it is just too fantastic for people to believe.
