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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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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The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages; and unless some of its missionaries penetrate there, and erect banking houses and other pious shrines, there is no knowing how long the inhabitants may remain in their present state of contented poverty.
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Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?
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The more people who game, the better for everyone.
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The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward.
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The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.
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Spinoza saw... that if a falling stone could reason, it would think, 'I want to fall at the rate of thirty-two feet per second.'
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There are no standards for computer programmers and no group to certify them.
