Jerry Pournelle Quotes
Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. It's not like they're a bunch of idiots.
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Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.
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While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
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I'm an emotional person.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
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The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.
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The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.
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I find that I'm really attracted to mysterious creatives, and I love people that are able to put their emotions out there for not just the world to see, but just that are giving of their emotions, but a little bit mysterious and elusive as well.
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'American Idol' is such a big platform. It's been on for so many seasons. I went on the show not thinking I was going to make it that far at all because there was so many talented people that auditioned.
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Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. It's not like they're a bunch of idiots.
