W. Daniel Hillis Quotes

The greatest achievement of human technology is tools that allow us to create more than we understand.

W. Daniel Hillis

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• I am very much a girly girl as well as being this tough, athletic fighter. I grew up a tomboy. I got my first four wheeler when I was eight. I got my first dirt bike shortly after. So, I have a lot of these manly qualities, I guess you would say. But, I also like to go get dressed up every weekend.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Girl
  • Bike
  • Fighter

• For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.

  

  Fei Fei Sun
  • Friend
  • Shoes
  • Clothes

• It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.

  

  Owen D. Young
  • Faith
  • Vision
  • Courage

• A dead end street is a good place to turn around.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Good
  • End
  • Street

• I personally see myself as a musician in the first place. You know, I don't want to say I will be a producer and DJ for the rest of my life. I can totally see myself being in another band in five years, if that's what my heart and soul wants to do, if that's what will make me happy. I'm totally happy to just not DJ anymore.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Happy

• The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Work
  • Passion
  • Maybe

• I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably obsessed over the same old blues records growing up.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Same

• There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.

  

  Wale
  • America
  • You
  • Win

• I watch a lot of football.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Football
  • Watch
  • Lot

• I was in a convent for a year.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Year
  • Convent

• I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Life
  • Soccer

• The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Way
  • Management
  • Treat

• With Donald J. Trump's arrival to power, many feel astonished by the growth of populism. Others analyze with extreme care the decline of companies that measure public opinion. I am saddened to watch the lack of temperament and political stability of those who 'represent' a trend or ideology.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Power
  • Political
  • Opinion

• I have to start with elements of myself, which is what you always do as an actor.

  

  Kate Baldwin
  • Myself
  • Always
  • Start

• If I get a bad review, I don't take it personally because everyone is entitled to their opinion.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Bad
  • Opinion
  • Everyone

• But I'm after medals more than anything. Championships don't get taken away from you but records do, so I think I'd rather have medals at every championships rather than times. A world record would be a bonus, but I'm still only 25 in 17 days.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • World
  • Think
  • Taken

• How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Labyrinth

• I listened, I understood and I didn’t understand. Long ago she had threatened Marcello with the shoemaker’s knife simply because he had dared to grab my wrist and break the bracelet. From that point on, I was sure that if Marcello had just brushed against her she would have killed him. But toward Stefano, now, she showed no explicit aggression. Of course, the explanation was simple: we had seen our fathers beat our mothers from childhood. We had grown up thinking that a stranger must not even touch us, but that our father, our boyfriend, and our husband could hit us when they liked, out of love, to educate us, to reeducate us.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Love
  • Childhood
  • Understand

• O masters, lords and rulers in all lands, Is this the handiwork you give to God, This monstrous thing distorted and soul-quenched?

  

  Edwin Markham
  • God
  • Soul

• There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • God
  • Long

• He told people that their sins were forgiven, and never waited to consult all the other people whom their sins had undoubtedly injured. He unhesitatingly behaved as if He was the party chiefly concerned, the person chiefly offended in all offenses. This makes sense only if He really was God whose laws are broken and whose love is wounded in every sin.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • God
  • Law

• The greatest achievement of human technology is tools that allow us to create more than we understand.

  

  W. Daniel Hillis
  • Technology
  • Understand
  • Achievement