George Gilder Quotes
The key role of entrepreneurs, like the most crucial role of scientists, is not to fill in the gaps in an existing market or theory, but to generate entirely new markets or theories. . .They stand before a canvas as empty as any painter's; a page as blank as any poet's.
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As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.
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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
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Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers.
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I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.
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My mother is the most supportive mother in the world, she's magical.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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As long as there have been elections, there have been attempts to keep eligible people from voting.
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I'm on Tumblr all the time.
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Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.
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I think long-term, Bitcoin is a currency of the Internet. So, even if humans don't use it, routers will use it. Web browsers will use it. Web servers will use it.
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I mean, Internet radio, which is basically a guy with his iTunes putting it over the computer, is the only way you're going to get true eclectic music programmed.
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I certainly had no intention of playing a man.
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Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
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Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like the end of a chapter, on some level setting up the beginning of another.
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I've had to try and find a way over the years of writing narratively that doesn't really require you to sit down and work out what the story's about. You're brought into a sort of sequence of images that have that emotional resonance, but it's kind of irrelevant what the actual story is. It's taken me maybe 13 albums or something to work that out.
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Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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I keep an ongoing list of my fifty favorite books, which I recalibrate whenever I discover a new one that seems to demand a spot there.
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In luck or out the toil has left its mark: That old perplexity an empty purse, Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse.
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The key role of entrepreneurs, like the most crucial role of scientists, is not to fill in the gaps in an existing market or theory, but to generate entirely new markets or theories. . .They stand before a canvas as empty as any painter's; a page as blank as any poet's.
