Jeff Minter Quotes
Once you get over the hurdle of how to get something on the screen, it's not that difficult to make apps and share them with your friends.
Quotes to Explore
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I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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Los Cabos has been an amalgam of many cultures that have been coming here. There have been beautiful Jesuit missions for example, in many places around this area. The towns are incredible. But there is a very strong Mexicanized culture here that exists because people from different parts of Mexico have come to live here.
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You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.
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It's an individual sport; you want to do well for yourself.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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I listen to music to when I'm feeling a certain way or to make myself feel a certain way. So why not make my own music inspired by true emotions?
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When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It was supposed to be about everyone preparing to embark on the cruise, but it mushroomed into an entire book.
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Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved. I remember Ed Marinaro, the football star.
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Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.
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I like 'Glee' a lot. It's kind of like my guilty pleasure.
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Creativity is one of the most important brain functions in developing youth. It is the ultimate road to invention. I believe it is really important to both nurture and encourage this in children - and adults, too!
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Engagement with young people is always a refreshing break with routine. It's also a reminder of how we need to constantly keep our thinking agile and unencumbered by traditional rules.
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There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.
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I've managed to completely reeducate myself into making eating secondary. I used to eat all the time because the food was there. Now I feel like a kid in school who is gaining points for behaving. And I love myself for it.
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I am thrilled to be able to bring my vision of beauty to others who may be inspired by it.
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Once you get over the hurdle of how to get something on the screen, it's not that difficult to make apps and share them with your friends.
