Jon Huntsman, Jr. Quotes
My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through China and say, The pipeline is full of ideas - there's personalized medicine, biotechnology, new forms to power ourselves, clean energy, etc., etc.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
-
I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
-
I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.
-
As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.
-
The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.
-
Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
-
Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
-
Twitter should ban my mother.
-
I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
-
One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
-
There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
-
Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
-
For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
-
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
-
It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
-
I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
-
I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.
-
I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
-
Lots of narcissistic people have helped lots of other people with their music. That's such a narcissistic thing to say! Ha ha!
-
The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.
-
One day I'd love a house in the country, with some chickens, dogs and kids.
-
A lot of straight people think I'm nuts.
-
What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.
-
My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through China and say, The pipeline is full of ideas - there's personalized medicine, biotechnology, new forms to power ourselves, clean energy, etc., etc.
