John Carmack Quotes
'The biggest problem is that Java is really slow. On a pure cpu / memory / display / communications level, most modern cell phones should be considerably better gaming platforms than a Game Boy Advanced. With Java, on most phones you are left with about the CPU power of an original 4.77 mhz IBM PC, and lousy control over everything.'
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
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I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.
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First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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When you sit down and play your music for someone you respect, you get that feeling in your stomach of like: 'Oh my God...' You know if it's not great because you start to feel sick.
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Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
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I'm not looking for a 'yes' woman, but a strong person who knows when to be objective and when not to be.
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I'm Bam Margera. And I feel like kicking my dad's butt all day today.
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I will run against anybody.
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War on terrorism reflects, in my view, a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy for a superpower and for a great democracy with genuinely idealistic traditions.
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I speak my mind. That's who I am.
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I think what you'll find is overall, overwhelmingly, evangelicals would prefer me to Barack Obama.
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I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome.
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But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore.
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To drive an F1 car you have to be a little mad. On the morning of a race there's a mix of excitement and fear. If it's a wet track, then it's worse as you're not in control most of the time, which is the thing all drivers fear the most.
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'The biggest problem is that Java is really slow. On a pure cpu / memory / display / communications level, most modern cell phones should be considerably better gaming platforms than a Game Boy Advanced. With Java, on most phones you are left with about the CPU power of an original 4.77 mhz IBM PC, and lousy control over everything.'
