Joe Lonsdale Quotes
Traditional hackathons are fun and focused on skill and competition, but we believe that events which focus on the positive social impact of technology engage a wider and more diverse set of participants.
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We all have thoughts and feelings that we believe are fundamental to our lives but that are better left unspoken.
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I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.
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I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.
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I always get sick of these conversations where people are so obsessed with pixels, with high definition, and even with technology in general. I find it just dull and heartless. And so I wanted to use only the worst machines.
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The future of technology is not really location-based apps; it is about making location completely unimportant.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.
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I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.
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I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500.
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It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.
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Focus comes a lot more easily when you desperately want the results of your own work - nobody else is going to do it for you.
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If you believe that markets operate in Alan Greenspan fashion, then you don't inquire into the details.
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I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.
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I don't know how to not have fun. I'm dying and I'm having fun, and I'm going to keep having fun every day I've got left.
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It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
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The Asian brand, which I admire for having become a global success, is Samsung. In comparison, we're just starting, but I believe that we at Uniqlo will be the next Asian brand to do well globally.
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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
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The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.
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I do not allow myself to be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how tough the situation. I believe that if you just do your little bit without thinking of the bigness of what you stand against, if you turn to the enlargement of your own capacities, just that itself creates new potential.
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I start where the last man left off. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of a man can achieve.
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Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.
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...he'll never lie - the man is far too wise.
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I always loved acting, but when you get older and you're going through adolescence, the roles are limited.
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Traditional hackathons are fun and focused on skill and competition, but we believe that events which focus on the positive social impact of technology engage a wider and more diverse set of participants.
