Dave Parnas Quotes
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I'm only 26 - I don't know anything about life yet. Life is like a puzzle and my pieces are spread all over the world.
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Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that.
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I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.
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If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.
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I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.
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We know that Texas is more than a state. Texas has always been a promise. The promise that where you start has nothing to do with how far you can come.
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My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.
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God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.
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Don't order one for the road, because the road is already laid out.
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The business side of real estate investing is fraught with risk. Unlike purchasing mutual funds or savings bonds, with real estate, you can lose money; this is one of the reasons that seasoned real estate investors caution neophytes never to get too emotional about a property and always be willing to walk away.
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I am much pleased to find how very well I stand work & how my powers of attention & continued effort increase.
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I've been very, very careful to tell people what I am qualified to talk about and what I'm not qualified to talk about.
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What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.
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I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.
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In America, burial means an embalmed body in a heavy-duty casket with a vault built over it, so that the ground doesn't settle. That body is encased in many layers of denial.
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Whatever's going on in my life shows up in the writing room.
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One could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.
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Word-of-mouth marketing is a crucial component of organic growth for startups and one of the primary ways that Weebly has grown to over 15 million customers.
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I'll talk your ear off if you recognize me.
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It's important to remember to pinch yourself to remind you where you came from and how lucky you are.
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When someone says to me, 'I love your book - I read it in a day,' I want to tell them to go back and read it again.
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Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.
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There are no standards for computer programmers and no group to certify them.
