Jim Allchin Quotes
There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after.
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Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.
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My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.
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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
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Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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I truly do have the most amazing child on the face of the earth. I know all parents say that about their child, but Taylor truly is special.
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My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs... write life. I decided to take her up on that.
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I hope we've got a lot of fairways and greens. We'll go from there.
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$200, 300 million games, I'm a little scared about that; there aren't a lot of companies that have the resources or the courage to spend that much.
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But you know, it's not easy when your husband runs for president. I mean, it's not easy for me. I'm sure it's not easy for her. There's a lot of scrutiny on families that isn't always wanted.
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I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.
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Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
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I was always the type of person that whenever I started something I finished it. And, I was always held accountable for my actions.
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To me there is nothing more fraught with mystery & terror than a remote Massachusetts farmhouse against a lonely hill. Where else could an outbreak like the Salem witchcraft have occurred?
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Even the simple act that we call "going to visit a person of our acquaintance" is in part an intellectual act. We fill the physical appearance of the person we see with all the notions we have about him, and in the totality of our impressions about him, these notions play the most important role.
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My grandfather was very into horse racing, and I found some of his old journals and got into it from there. It has a lot of parallels to skiing. It's a fun lifestyle, being around the racetrack.
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I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.
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The will of God for your life is simply that you submit yourself to Him each day and say, 'Father, Your will for today is mine. You lead me today and I will follow.
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There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.
