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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Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to make something of themselves, and use their brains and creativity. I'm just thrilled about that.
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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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It's funny. You travel all over the world, and you wind up with a guy from your hometown.
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Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
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When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.
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I wanted to go out of fashion, to study medicine. I thought, you know, who needs fashion? How important is it if you wear a red dress and an orange jacket? It's not, really.
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There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.
