W. Daniel Hillis Quotes

I am convinced that we humans are just at the beginning of our journey, on our way to becoming something more wonderful than we can imagine.

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• I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Different
  • Happy
  • Never

• We sold OkCupid to Match in January of 2011. In September of 2012, I became CEO of all of Match, which is the operating segment of IAC that contains all of the dating properties.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Dating
  • September
  • January

• Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Want
  • Positive
  • Inspire

• When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Look
  • Run
  • Trees

• I don't know why the guys with the big money don't find five terrific young producers and give each of them enough to commission a musical and to live on for a year. You'd be likely to get at least one project with a future.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Live
  • Money
  • Why

• In many ways, I feel like having the opportunity to play Gogol in 'The Namesake' really was my dream role in many ways.

  

  Kal Penn
  • Dream
  • Opportunity
  • Play

• I never want to be a spectacle, but I also feel like a look should always have a little bit of an edge.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Want
  • Look
  • Edge

• Medical research is needed, and I just saw there was a need for help that the government - state or federal - was not spending the taxpayers' money on helping people get through college.

  

  Joe Jamail
  • People
  • Money
  • Help

• My friend, Sue Ann, in college pulled me aside and said, 'Honey I love you but you have got to start waxing your eyebrows. They look wild!' So thank you, that kinda changed my life.

  

  Angela Kinsey
  • Life
  • College
  • Friend

• Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • America
  • Attention
  • English

• I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • People

• You'll be using digital currency. I think really what will happen is you'll use a combination of bitcoin, ether, your devices, the 'Internet of Things.' We've got billions of devices coming online.

  

  Tyler Winklevoss

• When I first starting coaching, I used a megaphone.

  

  Antonio Conte
  • Coaching

• I'm easily frightened and am somewhat of a squeamish person.

  

  Phoebe Robinson

• My track record speaks for itself.

  

  Billy Butler

• My nickname is 'Chief' because my father was a chief in Nigeria.

  

  Jidenna Theodore Mobisson
  • Father

• There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines.

  

  Keeley Hawes
  • Theatre

• You are not what you seem.So many people have said that that I'm beginning to think that's precisely how I do seem. What is it I seem to be that you have now discovered that I'm not?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Beginning

• The hi-tech industry is not a monolithic thing. If you look on a timeline of a company, you see that in the beginning, you have to come up with an idea and to be willing to take risk. You have to grow fast, you have to think fast, and you have to do this usually in small teams.

  

  Yossi Vardi
  • Up
  • Small
  • Beginning

• A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself.

  

  Will Self
  • Thinking
  • Stories
  • Humans

• When one is possessed with doubt, that though he call upon the Lord he cannot be heard, and that God has turned him heart from him, and is angry ... he must arm himself with God's Word, promising to hear him.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Doubt
  • Angry
  • Lord

• You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Angry
  • Humor

• I am convinced that we humans are just at the beginning of our journey, on our way to becoming something more wonderful than we can imagine.

  

  W. Daniel Hillis
  • Beginning
  • Journey
  • Humans