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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The want of money is the root of all evil.
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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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When I played sports, if you lose the game, and then you complain, that makes you a sore loser. That doesn't make you protester - that just makes you a whiner.
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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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I think the American people want to see the interactivity between candidates and audiences, and tough questions posed by people and how you handle them under fire.
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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'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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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'm more of an engineer with a law degree than I am a lawyer with an engineering degree in terms of how I think.
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For the nation to live, the tribe must die.
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I think the success of any movie is dependent upon it being a singular vision.
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I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more good science fiction than anyone else alive.
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Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it.
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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.
