John Carmack Quotes

I've said before that I'm a remarkably unsentimental person.

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• A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Knowledge

• Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Meaningful
  • Optimistic
  • Narrative

• I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Crime
  • Fiction
  • Lewis

• When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Picture

• I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms that wander around the edge of it in the world, but actually the children's writers are the children.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Live
  • Children

• You have to get comfortable giving up control, and you find people who do things better than you do. Quora now does better with the team we have built.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Giving

• Take your average couscous salad, and it's almost always a sloppy mush, no matter how much attention has gone into getting flavours in there.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Attention
  • Always
  • Salad

• I worry about Zimbabweans. They bend, they bend, they bend, they bend - where do the people break? How long can they go on scrounging for food in garbage dumps and using the moisture from sewage drains to plant vegetables?

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Long
  • Food

• It was sanctions that drove Iran to the negotiating table in the first place.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • First
  • Iran
  • Table

• There seems little doubt in my mind that depression, in particular at the severe end of the experience of this condition, is as real a disorder as diabetes is at the severe end of blood glucose levels.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Experience

• People are really sick of seeing the winner not win and what the public thinks should happen.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • People
  • Win
  • Sick

• Live theater is my favorite of all the mediums that I have worked in, so I have every intention on coming back to Broadway.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Live
  • Back
  • Intention

• The answer scrawled on a blank page in a daily newspaper, was conceived whilst aboard a ferry.

  

  Harold Stephen Black
  • Daily
  • Page
  • Newspaper

• The stress and turmoil that my father had to go through at a young age to make sure that I didn't have the same trials and tribulations, I couldn't be more grateful.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Age
  • Father
  • Stress

• I think the whole definition of a geek is somebody being passionate and focused, and being proud of saying that they're passionate and focused, on a narrow range of subjects.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Think
  • Proud
  • Saying

• Exposition has legitimate uses. It's the most efficient way to summarize background information, including necessary information about a character's history. It can set the stage well for a major dramatized event.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Character
  • History
  • Stage

• It was hard to admit I had a problem when I still had money, property, prestige. How can I have a problem when I'm driving my new Mercedes, and it's paid for, and I have a house at Malibu?

  

  Edd Byrnes
  • Money
  • House
  • Problem

• I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored.

  

  Pam Gems
  • World
  • Heaven
  • Woman

• I don't believe in hatred anymore. I hate to think of how it felt before When anger overwhelms your very soul It's hard to realize you'll ever knowLove like we do.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Believe
  • Soul
  • Hate

• No matter what I do, my songs come out in a certain style, and if that sounds like Dead Kennedys, then there's probably a reason for it. Don't forget, I wrote most of those songs, music and lyrics.

  

  Eric Reed Boucher
  • Music
  • Style
  • Lyrics

• We can learn from all around the world. Germany, particularly, has been successful with rooftop solar generation. Other countries like Norway and Sweden have done work on it. Some of them have done offshore wind projects. So we're looking at learning from the best from all across the world. My approach is to get the best out of each one.

  

  Piyush Goyal
  • World
  • Work
  • Done

• I'm aware that as much as people like hearing and listening to my music, it's also very therapeutic for me to be able to express myself some way - how I'm feeling, how I'm thinking, and just saying what's in my heart and on my mind. I need to do that to maintain my sanity.

  

  Little Simz
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• And my little sister died when she was 16.

  

  Jeremy London
  • She
  • Sister

• I've said before that I'm a remarkably unsentimental person.

  

  John Carmack