Jimmy Wales Quotes
Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentives.
Jimmy Wales
Quotes to Explore
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
Kara Swisher
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
Nate Silver
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
Fran Lebowitz
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Samuel Johnson
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I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.
Irina Shayk
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I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.
Walter Dean Myers
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Madame de Stael
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I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow.
Edith Pearlman
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A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
Otto von Bismarck
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
Felix Adler
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I'm pretty casual, but I'm starting to obsess a little bit; like, one of my favorite things to do is to pair really feminine accessories with edgier outfits or vice versa.
Kara Hayward
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I'm really into personalities. There have been certain girls that I've been attracted to, but when we got to chatting, it was such a let-down. So for me, a great personality is key.
Olly Murs
