Jeffrey Zeldman Quotes
On the traditional computer keyboard, I'm a super-fast touch typist. I mastered touch typing in high school.
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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Now is the only thing that exists.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.
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Reading is a huge part of life.
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To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.
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If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.
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If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'
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When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.
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You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid.
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No man may make another free.
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
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There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.
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I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. It wasn't until 1980 - I think I was 12 years old - that I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.'
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Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.
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When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this would be.
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I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.
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In young adult novels and children's books, you stay in moment. The story goes through a school year or a weekend. You never get a sense of a future self because the young person has not lived that yet.
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I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.
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On the traditional computer keyboard, I'm a super-fast touch typist. I mastered touch typing in high school.
