Fred Wilson Quotes
The Internet is a computing platform built on top of core technology. Applied technology is what gets built on top of that: It's Web services.
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Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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The production value of YouTube videos is not there.
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I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
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I love snacks, but I'm kind of growing out of them. I'm getting into fruit and Clif Bars.
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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
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We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.
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Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Frankly, I don't understand the monthly magazines that continue to publish news that is two months old and which has already been reported on ad nauseam online, including on their own websites.
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I don't like to look typical.
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The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.
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One of the reasons I love devils so much is not based in my faith, but because as a kid, I grew up loving heavy metal and horror movies, and the devil is such a huge presence in both.
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I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
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When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.
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One thing that's important to point out is that this kind of populism has a long and mixed history. It's part of this tradition of problematic anti-elitism where the elites are always the liberal class - the intellectuals, the professors, the artists - and not the economic elites. Why are we so mad and aggrieved at newspaper editors but not at corporate executives? I think we need to look more at the latter, at economic elites.
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Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
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I've never been a much of a glamour girl.
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I ordered gold in the meantime to be showered down without ceasing among the happy multitude.
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The Internet is a computing platform built on top of core technology. Applied technology is what gets built on top of that: It's Web services.
