Walt Mossberg Quotes
There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers.
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We take the show very seriously, but we don't take ourselves seriously.
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.
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The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
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To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed.
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I don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds.
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And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.
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I love brawling, but I'm a smart fighter.
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I just know what I want, and I'm willing to butt heads with folks to get it.
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In Beverly Hills, around 3 P.M. on Bedford Drive, a strange rite occurs. All the men and women who have had facial surgery leave the their surgeons and walk up and down the street bandaged like mummies in Prada, waiting for their loved ones to pick them up.
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As teenagers, a lot of us just did not want much to do with Arabic culture - we looked to the West.
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I want to keep Flume kind of experimental, weird, melodic, pretty.
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Democrats hate Democrats most of all.
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Playing somebody who's still alive is very interesting.
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
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You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.
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We have backed off the big push to get computers in primary grades, ... We do have things where kids use technology before they leave fifth grade. But previous studies of the introduction of technology at other schools haven't shown a huge value in learning as a result. When we put something in the classroom, it absolutely has to further what kids need to know. I just don't want to go off in a tangent in one direction without being completely clear that it will pay off for all the kids.
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Computers and games don't waste time - people do.
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There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers.
