Jason Fried Quotes

Unlike a goldfish, a computer can't really do anything without you telling it exactly what you want it to do.

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• A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Men
  • Very
  • Other

• Life does not owe me a shred.

  

  Valerie Harper
  • Life
  • Me
  • Owe

• To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Help
  • You
  • Guidance

• Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • People
  • Born
  • Genius

• I don't know if I could rebuild an airplane engine, but I know a little bit about rotors and rivets.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Know
  • Airplane
  • Rebuild

• I like to wear clothes that I will wear when I am an old lady.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Clothes
  • Old
  • Lady

• The key is allowing your partner to be who they are and not having expectations that really have nothing to do with the person you married.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Partner
  • Expectations
  • Key

• By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Time
  • Love
  • Rock

• When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Guitar
  • Radio
  • Hip Hop

• When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.

  

  Paige Craig
  • Life
  • Doing
  • Roses

• A melody is not merely something you can hum.

  

  Aaron Copland
  • You
  • Something
  • Melody

• When I see old photos of me on the beach I don't look too bad... but it's hard trying to breathe in for such a long time when I spot the photographers!

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Time
  • Long
  • Trying

• We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • Afraid
  • Common
  • Common Sense

• There's no big splashy renaissance in Italian films. We have good young actors and directors. What we lack are screenwriters. It's hard to write about Italy.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Good
  • Young
  • Italian

• I have often lost whole days jumping from one Wikipedia article after another in an attempt to understand the full scope of marriage as an institution.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Lost
  • Marriage
  • Understand

• 'Friends' played in this territory of being funny, and then also just grabbing your heart. And not afraid of that. It was a comedic soap opera. Not being afraid to have an audience feel something, laugh and cry, was quite extraordinary and quite wonderful.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Heart
  • Friends
  • Funny

• Food still isn't my thing, but I've learned to respect its power and significance.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Power
  • Food
  • Respect

• Catholics are every bit as diverse as any other sort of voters out there, with conservative Democrats and moderates.

  

  Bob Casey, Jr.

• A Negro girl could never be purely innocent. The vengeful Race Fairy always lurked nearby; your parents' best hope was that the fairy would show up at someone else's feast and punish their child. Parents had to protect themselves, too, and protect you from knowing how much danger you all were in.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Parents

• I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp.

  

  Joanna Newsom
  • People

• You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.

  

  Ellen Goodman
  • Children
  • Forever
  • Fire

• It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are called forth in human beings towards those who, having the power entirely to crush their earthly existence, voluntarily refrain from using that power.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Existence
  • Human Nature
  • Irony

• Unlike a goldfish, a computer can't really do anything without you telling it exactly what you want it to do.

  

  Jason Fried