W. Daniel Hillis Quotes
The greatest achievement of human technology is tools that allow us to create more than we understand.
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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.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.
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A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
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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.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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I hear daily from Hoosier veterans who are forced to wait months on end for their disability claims to be processed. Unfortunately, this is typical.
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Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.
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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.
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I was not an easy kid.
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There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.
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I watch a lot of football.
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I was in a convent for a year.
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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.
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Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
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The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.
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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.
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If I'm flying to China, I can sit and think about a problem. Other scientists have to go to the lab. I'm always thinking about maths, even when I'm doing other things. A lot of the time you're going up blind alleys and it's very frustrating, but then you have a sudden rush of ideas. You can live off that for quite some time.
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Too much knowledge could be a bad thing. I was lead to the Szemerédi theorem by proving a result, about squares, that Euler had already proven, and I relied on an "obvious" fact, about arithmetical progressions, that was unproved at the time. But that lead me to try and prove that formerly unproved statement- about arithmetical progressions-and that ultimately lead to the Szemerédi Theorem.
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I've always liked to think ahead. Not stupid-far ahead. A hundred years doesn't interest me. But 20 years interests me, and more for what happens to humans as opposed to things.
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The greatest achievement of human technology is tools that allow us to create more than we understand.
