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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I never understood the realism of an imaginary circumstance. While I was doing 'Smoke Signals,' I relied on my instinct and what I grew up with. I had this energy, but it was a one-dimensional thing.
-
I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
-
As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
-
My parents are high school sweethearts.
-
Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
-
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.
-
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
-
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.
-
You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.
-
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.
-
'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.
-
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.
-
The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
-
Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.
-
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.
-
I find, then, I am but a bad anatomist.
-
I think sometimes when you have 24 episodes, you almost have to stretch things out too much.
-
Ever since Adam's day, the divine law of the Sabbath has been emphasized repeatedly over the centuries more than any other commandment. This long emphasis alone is an indication of its importance.
-
The outer space beings are my brothers. They sent me here. They already know my music.
-
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.
