Jaan Tallinn Quotes

Technology keeps progressing. Young people follow the curve. But as they get older, they get inertia, and they start deviating from that curve.

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• The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Today
  • House
  • Man

• I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Myself
  • Like
  • See

• How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Real

• What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Power
  • Bad

• I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Wife
  • Lovely
  • Fabulous

• When I first started out, I was a bad actor.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Bad
  • Actor
  • First

• Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line.

  

  Pat Williams
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Country
  • American
  • History

• I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Girl
  • Sexy
  • Train

• The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Small
  • Understand
  • Fast

• If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Life
  • God
  • Done

• 'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Game
  • Story
  • Fantasy

• I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • Amazing
  • Problem

• Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Me
  • Something
  • Happen

• Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Word
  • Ownership
  • Possessions

• I don't drink coffee.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Coffee
  • Drink
  • Drink Coffee

• The hijab is a symbol that we wear on our heads, but I want people to know that it is my choice. I'm doing it because I want to do it. I wanted people to see that you could still be really cute and modest at the same time.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Time
  • Same

• Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.

  

  Ice T
  • Value
  • Looking
  • Shock

• I tried to mix country music into my sets in L.A., and I noticed that was when people checked out. And I was like, 'That doesn't make sense. The genre that I love the most is the one that doesn't work.'

  

  Brett Young
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• I bring my ukulele everywhere I go, play a little music in the park, always have it with me.

  

  Max Schneider
  • Music

• We have a dysfunctional immigration system, which does not permit us to know who we let into our country, and it does not permit us to protect our citizens properly. We have an incompetent administration.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Country
  • Immigration

• I have very intense conversations with friends, people I really interconnect with. We talk about politics, important things. I like to talk about ideas and get people to be specific.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • People
  • Important
  • Friends

• I figure it's almost like a balance. We're eating these wonderful collard greens and turnip greens which are so medicinally good for you and, OK, so what if it has a little ham hock in it?

  

  Paula Deen
  • Good
  • Balance

• Technology keeps progressing. Young people follow the curve. But as they get older, they get inertia, and they start deviating from that curve.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • People
  • Technology
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