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 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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Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.
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I think the 'Saw' universe, the 'Saw' brand, is too big to just let it just sit there on a shelf.
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A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he's strapped to the chair with vertical seat belts, unable to eject.
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I started in comics in 2005, ten years ago, and at that time, I didn't have a cell phone. I don't even think I had a computer myself, you know. And just in those ten years, how much technology has changed.
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Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life.
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Set goals so big that unless God helps you, you will be a miserable failure.
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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.
