John Collison Quotes
Auctomatic was a compressed start-up experience, going from start to launch to acquisition in under a year. We spent a long time building the product before getting our first customer, whereas with Stripe we made sure we had paying customers from the very start.
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I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
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I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'
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I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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I'm interested in all things that Donald Trump does. I've known him since 1980. He's a good man.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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Producing should be a creative responsibility.
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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
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I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
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I was running for mayor of Syracuse - the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one of the first in the United States. I was known for my strong conservation plank. In 1969, the term 'conservation' was hardly on the tip of every citizen's tongue.
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Congo, my country, has the largest forest in Africa, maybe the second-largest in the world. I was born in a forest area, and when I was growing up, I assisted my uncle, who was a poacher. That was good, because it grew my passion for protecting the forest and plants.
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I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
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It's every singer's dream to get to Carnegie Hall.
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I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself. I couldn't ask for help because I didn't know I needed help.
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Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country.
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Auctomatic was a compressed start-up experience, going from start to launch to acquisition in under a year. We spent a long time building the product before getting our first customer, whereas with Stripe we made sure we had paying customers from the very start.
