Joe Lonsdale Quotes
We founded Palantir in 2003-2004 because we perceived a giant gap between how the defense and intelligence community was harnessing technology to achieve its goals and what we had seen was possible in Silicon Valley over the last decade.
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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.
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I stay true to myself, my daughter. I just remember where I came from - I remember what I'm coming from - and then I remember why I do what I do.
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I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
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When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.
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I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.
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To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
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Have a little faith. Don't give up.
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Gluttony is not a secret vice.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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I never forgot being poor, and I never stopped thinking how fortunate I am.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoor Championships to being world outdoor gold medallist.
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When campaigns use one-word labels, typically it's meant to distract and destroy.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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Some people trust an insurance company over the government, while others trust the government over insurance companies.
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Forgiveness is like the martial arts of consciousness. In Aikido and, other martial arts, we sidestep our attackers force rather than resisting it. The energy of the attack then boomerangs back in the direction of the attacker. Our power lies in remaining nonreactive. Forgiveness works in the same way. When we attack back, and defense is a form of attack, we initiate a war that no one can win.
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Income taxes are very poor at generating income from automation because the gains are realized by technology companies that are experts at not paying taxes.
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We founded Palantir in 2003-2004 because we perceived a giant gap between how the defense and intelligence community was harnessing technology to achieve its goals and what we had seen was possible in Silicon Valley over the last decade.
