Jamais Cascio Quotes

Entrepreneurs need to recognize that, especially in the digital domain, they are unlikely to come up with something that is going to be permanently on top, that impermanence and ephemerality is the nature of the beast.

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• Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I don't study; I create.

  

  Viktor Korchnoi
  • Study
  • Create

• Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Facebook
  • Web
  • Applications

• About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Job
  • Game

• A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Good
  • Composer
  • Imitate

• Most big popcorn movies are 'bad guy does something to good guy, good guy gets revenge on bad guy, sets the world right, and moves on.' And 'Ender's Game' is just not that simple, so it's an exciting challenge. It's a little terrifying, and let's see how audiences respond.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • World
  • Good
  • Bad

• All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Beginning
  • Idea
  • Riches

• Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

  

  Walter Anderson
  • Life
  • Character
  • Bad

• For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.

  

  Jack Whitehall
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  • True
  • Career

• Becoming a tutor was among the many attractive post-collegiate side careers I failed to pursue while devoting the bulk of my days to writing fiction.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Writing
  • Fiction
  • Attractive

• Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.

  

  Washington Irving
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  • Tongue
  • Tool

• Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Music
  • Way
  • Basketball

• With 'posts' running in the millions, Internet message boards have become an essential part of the savvy investor's arsenal.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Running
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• When I get dolled up to go out, men turn their heads and I'm used to it. But I think all women are sexy and should embrace that side of themselves.

  

  Malin Akerman
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  • Men
  • Women

• For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Me
  • Like

• While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Dogs have such short life spans, it's like a concentrated version of a human life. When they get older, they become much more like our mothers. They wait for us, watch out for us, are completely fascinated by everything we do.

  

  Caroline Knapp
  • Life

• Sometimes I get insecure about being a real director because I look at the great directors, and they have such command. But maybe that keeps me critical of myself. Maybe it keeps me moving forward.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Great
  • Real
  • Moving

• I used to do theater in L.A., but it got to the point where everything was really showcase-y.

  

  Beth Broderick

• Everybody thinks if you do one thing, you can't do something else. So I like the fact that I can be versatile if I want to.

  

  Denise Van Outen

• Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl... or boy.

  

  Adam Sandler
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  • Girl
  • Boy

• Entrepreneurs need to recognize that, especially in the digital domain, they are unlikely to come up with something that is going to be permanently on top, that impermanence and ephemerality is the nature of the beast.

  

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