Yukihiro Matsumoto Quotes
I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.
Quotes to Explore
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Whatever your political affiliation may be, whether you are a conservative or liberal, we should all be bound by the belief that we need to support the troops.
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I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.
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We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.
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If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.
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You've got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you're going to hear 'no' a lot more than you hear 'yes.'
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We're more familiar with what economists call an English auction - prices start low and rise as people bid. However, there is also the Dutch auction, where prices start high and go lower until somebody bites. Movies are sold to the audience via a very slow Dutch auction, where each phase between price drops can last weeks or months.
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I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.
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I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I'm sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don't even know when you're being compromised till after the fact, and that's what you regret.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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You just have to work super hard, and if you have a passion, that's the most beautiful thing in life, and you just have to bust out and do it, baby!
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Today people are a hundred times more interested in the personality of the person they are with than the clothes he wears.
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“I live my life moment to moment. In that moment, I try to give my best because then your next moment is better than your previous one.”
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Lifespan extension has never really been a goal of aging science, nor should it.
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My family believe you should never be flashy about anything. Maybe that handicapped me a little bit, that extreme humility.
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I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.
