John Carmack Quotes
Programming in the abstract sense is what I really enjoy. I enjoy lots of different areas of it... I'm taking a great deal of enjoyment writing device drivers for Linux. I could also be having a good time writing a database manager or something because there are always interesting problems.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I love ice cream, and I love chocolate.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
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In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
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I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
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I like part-time jobs in restaurants.
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I have come to the conclusion that while a candidate's faith matters, what's most important is how he or she applies that faith.
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I believe we are our own inner hand - the godly power resides within each of us to create the lives we desire - no matter what the challenges!
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Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
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Like many people, I have a fascination with lies and the people who tell them. I wouldn't say I've never told a lie, but I don't think I've ever told one without both assuming I would be found out and feeling absolutely rotten about it.
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That's the way to live - around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
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When it comes to energy, cost isn't everything - but it's a lot. Everybody wants cheap power.
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Writing, I crushed an insect with my nail And thought nothing at all. A bit of wing Caught my eye then, a gossamer so frail And exquisite, I saw in it a thing That scorned the grossness of the thing I wrote. It hung upon my finger like a sting.
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Programming in the abstract sense is what I really enjoy. I enjoy lots of different areas of it... I'm taking a great deal of enjoyment writing device drivers for Linux. I could also be having a good time writing a database manager or something because there are always interesting problems.
