Jon Postel Quotes

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• There was a film called 'FM,' and we were asked to do the title song. And I said, 'Does it have to have any specific words?' And they said, 'No, it just has to be about FM radio.' It took a day or two to write.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Song
  • Words
  • Day

• Seriously, who really cares how long the Nile river is, or who was the first to discover cheese? How is memorizing that ever going to help anyone? Instead, we need to give kids projects that allow them to exercise their minds and discover things for themselves.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Help

• I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Country
  • Species

• We must eliminate all nuclear weapons in order to eliminate the grave risk they pose to our world. This will require persistent efforts by all countries and peoples. A nuclear war would affect everyone, and all have a stake in preventing this nightmare.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • War
  • Risk

• I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • People
  • Live
  • Know

• I just lost my best friend, I have been crying hysterical for a full day.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Lost
  • Day
  • Friend

• I love collaborating with different people.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • People
  • Different
  • Collaborating

• Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Freedom
  • Politics
  • Press

• The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Love
  • For Him
  • Advantage

• The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to the public. They challenge us and ask us to question our assumptions about the past or the world around us.

  

  Kate Williams
  • World
  • Past
  • Question

• Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!

  

  Ada Cambridge
  • Alone
  • Anchor
  • Compass

• Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's great music, great melodies, great hooks. But, on top of it, it's a presentation. There's a showmanship about it. And that's why I wanted to be a pop star.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Great
  • Music
  • Why

• I saw a lot of haute couture all my childhood, and without knowing it I've learned from when I was a child to recognise beautiful fabrics.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • Beautiful
  • Childhood
  • Child

• There is not adequate whistleblower protection.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Protection
  • Adequate

• I used to stand in front of the mic and cry.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Stand
  • Cry
  • Front

• Nobody believes it, but I slept on a futon till I was 13.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Nobody
  • Believes
  • Till

• It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Up
  • May
  • Nice

• Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • People
  • Work
  • Education

• I'm not questioning the monotheistic god. I think there's absolutely no evidence for the existence of such a god. When I say that, I mean I'm - part of that is that the idea that God could be all-powerful and also benevolent is on its face contradictory.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • God
  • Think
  • Powerful

• Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. I know of no sculpture, painting or music that exceeds the compelling spiritual command of the soaring shape of granite cliff and dome, of patina of light on rock and forest, and of the thunder and whispering of the falling, flowing waters. At first the colossal aspect may dominate; then we perceive and respond to the delicate and persuasive complex of nature.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Nature
  • Wonder
  • Painting

• If you were to open up a baby's head - and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should - you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland.

  

  Dave Barry
  • Up
  • Baby

• Go find out if you can make your product. Once you make it, stop projecting what's going to happen and go find out whether your product can sell. Find out whether someone is willing to take hard-earned cash out of their pocket and exchange it for your product.

  

  Kevin Plank
  • Stop

• Anytime you play a team sport, the success of the team really makes everything better. It's nice.

  

  Ricky Williams
  • Team
  • Nice
  • Play

• Group discussion is very valuable; group drafting is less productive.

  

  Jon Postel