John Carmack Quotes
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.
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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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I don't wear plaid shirts.
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I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.
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I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.
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Remember: You are the common denominator in all your relationship problems. Wherever you go, your pesky repeated issues go - until you shed a blazing light of insight upon them.
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My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after college. I didn't like it at the time, but I can't help but feel that that was probably the best thing for me.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. If we don't care about the characters, we won't care - not in a lasting way - about what's happening to them.
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I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.
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My hockey is good, but my ice skating is terrible. It's a bit of a mess to watch!
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I know doing movies is where I need to be. That's where my audience wants to see me.
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There are still places to go, there are still dinners, there are still parties, and you can still get dressed up. That's part of having fun in fashion.
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My Chinese grandmother was a dressmaker, so I always enjoyed dressing up and looking cool.
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I'm half-Chinese and half-Caucasian. My grandparents came here from China. My father was born in New Jersey.
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The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.
