Douglas Engelbart Quotes
In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
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I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.
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If the Knesset is a temple, then Feiglin is the idol. A Knesset where Feiglin presides is an impure Knesset.
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I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church.
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Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
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O nightingale, that on yon bloomy sprayWarbl'st at eve, when all the woods are still.
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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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I always try to be different. I always want to surprise myself.
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In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.
