Jeffrey Zeldman Quotes

I like files. I like editing a CSS file without necessarily having to edit an HTML file. I like fixing a problem by replacing a corrupted file with a clean one. Maybe I'm set in my ways, but I don't consider it a hardship to open a folder or replace a file.

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• I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • God
  • School

• Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • People
  • Country
  • Odds

• I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Support
  • System
  • Capitalist

• The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed rebellions of the Forties and Sixties, the cultural and political desires for self-determination began to shape each other in a series of riffs on independence and identity.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Time
  • Political
  • Identity

• You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an effect, for sure.

  

  Indiana Evans
  • Remember
  • You
  • Working

• If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Good
  • Knowledge
  • Evil

• People only look at you and say, 'You are black and you are from the banlieue,' and all the doors are closed. I had the desire to be something else. If I see a door that is a little open, I will find a way to get through.

  

  Omar Sy
  • People
  • Black
  • Desire

• I'm the most competitive person you'll ever meet.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • You
  • Person
  • Competitive

• I love children. They're so much fun and I would have a blast spoiling them.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Children
  • Love
  • Fun

• One day, when we were coming back from school, we saw this big cloud of smoke coming up, and all these fire-trucks in the yard. The garage was burning down. I was 14, and we'd lost everything.

  

  Valerie June
  • Up
  • School
  • Lost

• While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • School
  • Money
  • Failure

• The biggest deficit in terms of gender equality at Ozon lay in our IT department. So we made a decision, along with our key IT leaders, to remove all filters and systemically interview all the women who apply.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Women
  • Decision
  • Equality

• We were constantly appealing for funds from readers when I edited 'The Black Dwarf' in 1968-69.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Black
  • Readers
  • Appealing

• I've not gotten so much stuff because I improvise in an audition, but I always feel like, if that's the case, the reason is because it wouldn't have worked out anyway with us working together.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Together
  • Working Together

• There have been a lot of changes in recruit training in the past twenty years.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Past
  • Training
  • Changes

• With directors, some have a kind of in-built ability to just know how to work with actors and get the best out of actors, and some don't have a clue about acting. I think it'd be a good idea if directors put themselves in front of the camera, or even went on a six-week drama course, just to know a little bit about what that feels like.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Good
  • Work
  • Best

• I just got really into this one girl on Instagram and had her paint little pineapples on my nails during shooting.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Girl
  • Paint
  • Instagram

• Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

  

  Man Ray
  • Inspiration
  • Information
  • Technique

• For joy, apparently, it was all Franny could do to hold the phone, even with both hands.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Joy

• One day passes and another day comes along, and everything happens the same. But basically, we are so afraid of the brilliance coming at us, and the sharp experience of our life, that we can't even focus our eyes.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Eyes

• I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity.

  

  Arthur Cohn
  • Experience
  • Wisdom
  • Integrity

• I like files. I like editing a CSS file without necessarily having to edit an HTML file. I like fixing a problem by replacing a corrupted file with a clean one. Maybe I'm set in my ways, but I don't consider it a hardship to open a folder or replace a file.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman