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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I've got a family, and I get to enjoy my family, and I get to do different things, trying the movie thing a little bit.
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I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.
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I am absolutely not a roll-on-stage kind of girl! I would be totally freaked out if I didn't warm up, and I don't know how other singers do it.
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A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and personal response, the communal nature of the audience is like having five hundred people read your novel and respond to it at the same time. I find that thrilling.
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We did our best the last couple of weeks, we really put on a push. But the teams ahead of us were also playing playoff hockey.
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There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.
