Dennis Crowley Quotes

It's difficult to build services that are supposed to scale to, you know, 30, 50, 100 million users right off the bat because they got to be kind of tailored down; by definition, they have to be a little bit generic to speak to that large of an audience.

Dennis Crowley

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• I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Work
  • Being
  • Reputation

• I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Life
  • Growing
  • Kind

• I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given. You're at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That's an equation for a lot of heartbreak.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Mercy
  • Drive

• As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Life
  • Country
  • Free

• Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Game
  • Death
  • Cure

• As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Rest
  • California
  • Nation

• My parents are high school sweethearts.

  

  Becky G
  • School
  • High
  • Parents

• My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Ambition

• When the Transportation Security Administration adopted body scanners at airports, activists wrote the Fourth Amendment on their underwear in metallic paint readable by the new devices.

  

  Dana Priest
  • Security
  • Transportation

• 'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other characters - but it doesn't tell you who is good or bad or right or wrong. That's the most exciting storytelling, in my book.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• While books expand horizons by exposing us to worlds outside our own, children also need to see themselves, their experiences and their cultures reflected in books they read. Unfortunately, for too many children, this is not the norm.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Children
  • See
  • Need

• The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Place
  • Soldiers
  • Depend

• Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Experience
  • Help
  • Trust

• A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • See
  • Generation
  • Market

• Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Work
  • Design
  • Golf

• You know, I still live in my neighborhood. I live in Brooklyn and the same neighborhood, so I don't really get star treatment like that. I'm still Vanessa from the neighborhood.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Live
  • Know
  • Star

• I don't know why I ever come in here. The flies get the best of everything.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Why
  • Know
  • Best

• A message in a bottle is one of the most intriguing things that you can find, the circumstance and method of delivery forever hidden but just the message sitting there, enigmatic, to decode.

  

  Bill Gothard
  • Forever
  • Circumstances
  • Intriguing

• I will occasionally take power naps on weekends and agree that they can be re-energizing.

  

  Rana el Kaliouby
  • Power
  • Agree
  • Weekends

• As a busy working mom I'm always pressed for time, so a quick and easy beauty routine is key!

  

  Angela Kinsey
  • Time
  • Mom

• Good is no hermit. It has ever neighbors.

  

  Confucius
  • Neighbors
  • Hermit
  • Good Is

• You just went up and started playing, the audience got into it, and it was just a great high experience. That's what I kind of invented with "Mas Tequila" in Cabo.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Experience
  • Audience
  • Playing

• It's difficult to build services that are supposed to scale to, you know, 30, 50, 100 million users right off the bat because they got to be kind of tailored down; by definition, they have to be a little bit generic to speak to that large of an audience.

  

  Dennis Crowley