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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I am very much in favor of women's rights, being a woman myself, and I support intelligent, successful, independent working women.
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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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I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can't ask for more than that.
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At Pixar, 'Wall-E' was our ninth film, and they've all been successes - more than that, they've all really touched people. Everybody wonders, 'How do you do it?' Well, how do you not do it? You just work hard.
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I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.
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Technology does not always rhyme with perfection and reliability. Far from it in reality!
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I think there are four or five interesting pockets where a lot of cool technology companies are getting started. Chicago is one of them. New York is certainly another. Silicon Valley really dominates. And you're seeing some stuff out of Boston and Seattle and down South.
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Juicero is the first company to make cold-pressed juice something that people can make themselves at home. The challenges to design and engineer a press that can deliver 8,000 pounds of force are tremendous.
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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.
