Joe Lonsdale Quotes

Engineering is the art of managing scarcity - it's easy to design and build a massive bridge that will last forever if cost is not an issue. Similarly, to build a new company, you must manage scarce resources.

Joe Lonsdale

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• Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Sun
  • Yellow

• Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Different
  • May
  • Understanding

• I'm such a girl because all the guys go for cars because of their engines or something like that. I like the colour and the design.

  

  Nathalie Kelley
  • Girl
  • Design
  • Colour

• It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Good
  • Art
  • Control

• As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Art
  • Think
  • You

• Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.

  

  B. B. King
  • America
  • You
  • Forever

• Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Good
  • Great
  • Different

• I love edgy comedy. 'Coming to America' still gets me and 'Friday.' I watch old Richard Pryor stand-up on VHS, too.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Comedy
  • Old
  • Watch

• Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Work
  • Music
  • Art

• Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Art

• Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Art
  • Skating
  • Figure Skating

• But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Art
  • Business
  • Creative

• Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lie

• Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Women
  • Success
  • Design

• Filmmaking is a very privileged art form. It costs a lot of money to make these things.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Money
  • Art
  • Filmmaking

• Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Life
  • Art
  • Education

• Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Work
  • Art
  • Canvas

• The capture of Saddam Hussein has proven to the bad ones, to the guilty ones, to the sinful ones that they cannot run forever. Sooner or later, the other criminals will also be found from their hideouts.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Bad
  • Forever
  • Guilty

• If you wanted to design a robot that could learn as well as it possibly could, you might end up with something that looked a lot like a 3-year-old.

  

  Alison Gopnik
  • Up
  • Design

• Art- speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day and that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. The truth lives from day to day, and the marvelous Plato of yesterday is chiefly bosh today.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Today

• I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these calculations [of Pi], having no other business at the time.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Time
  • Business
  • Figures

• One went on and on, never dreaming of the sudden dreadful day when the coverings were going to be dropped and one would see it was death after all, that it had been death all the time, death pretending, death waiting.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Death
  • Dreaming
  • Covering

• I think some people don't even know what they're talking about, and they just start talking with an opinion, not even asking questions.

  

  Brian Fallon
  • People
  • Opinion

• Engineering is the art of managing scarcity - it's easy to design and build a massive bridge that will last forever if cost is not an issue. Similarly, to build a new company, you must manage scarce resources.

  

  Joe Lonsdale
  • Art
  • Forever
  • Design