Brian Behlendorf Quotes

There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.

Brian Behlendorf

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• The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Money
  • Help
  • Strong

• The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Heart
  • New
  • New York

• Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Talk
  • React

• I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Song
  • Fire
  • Red

• A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Blood
  • Taste
  • Fighter

• The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Long
  • Now
  • Global

• But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Healthy
  • Clear
  • Inequality

• I'm a late bloomer. I believe 40 is the new 19.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Late

• There is no chance of a revolution in Georgia.

  

  Vano Merabishvili
  • Chance
  • Revolution
  • Georgia

• We don’t earn grace. We're all sinners. We don't deserve it. But God gives it to us anyway. And we choose how to receive it. It's our decision how to honor it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • God
  • Decision
  • Honor

• Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told.

  

  Harpo Marx
  • Music
  • House
  • Laughter

• Have you considered that these prophecies were not divine revelations, but merely manipulation from some secular power?

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Power
  • Manipulation

• (We are) the herpes of American cinema (because) we aren't going anywhere...

  

  Lloyd Kaufman
  • American

• You run into a party and a woman comes up to you. She's the most beautiful creature you ever saw — Ava Gardner — and says, 'I like you and why don't we get together?' What are you going to say, 'No'? You'd have to be an idiot. She was an incredible creature.

  

  Artie Shaw
  • Up
  • Why
  • She

• Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

  

  Alexander Graham Bell
  • Success
  • Preparation

• There is no 'stop' - there's always 'go' on both sides: always keep writing, always keep recording. I don't find them to be segmented processes.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Writing
  • Stop

• Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions.

  

  Albert Claude
  • Today
  • Plato

• The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.

  

  Irving Penn
  • World
  • May
  • Interesting

• In our world, as artists, the only time I'm allowed to express myself is through song.

  

  Ciara
  • Time
  • World
  • Song

• We've got to be responsible, somebody's got to be responsible for it.

  

  George Downing

• I do not rush into constructive work. When I get an idea, I start right away to build it up in my mind. I change the structure, I make improvements, I experiment, I run the device in my mind. It is absolutely the same to me whether I operate my turbine in thought or test it actually in my shop. It makes no difference, the results are the same. In this way, you see, I can rapidly develop and perfect an invention, without touching anything.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Change
  • Build
  • Develop

• There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.

  

  Brian Behlendorf