Jon Postel Quotes
Years ago when you'd go to a working group most of the people in the working group would be from universities. Now most of the people are from companies who are building internet products and care what the standards turn out to be.
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When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.
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Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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I have only a few really enviable skills, but packing - condensing just the right amount of stuff into a single bag, whether the trip is for a weekend or, as in this case, seven weeks - is one of them.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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Our career had a sort of funny shape.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills - and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography - to solving the world's problems.
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won't happen otherwise.
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Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.
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There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.
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I started styling people when I was just eight years old, without even knowing what a stylist was.
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If Caravaggio was a photographer today, I would love to work with him. I love his dark vision - I have a dark vision.
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I'm anti-cheese in a salad.
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I feel like comedy had a boys'-club label when we were starting.
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I lost a lot of money, lost my wife and kids.
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I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.
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Sometimes that's a year, sometimes it's 18 months, where all I'm doing is taking notes. I'm reconstructing the story from the back to the front so that I know where the front is.
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We've always idealized youth and then destroyed youth. That has happened since the beginning of time, and I'm fascinated by why we do that.
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The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.
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Years ago when you'd go to a working group most of the people in the working group would be from universities. Now most of the people are from companies who are building internet products and care what the standards turn out to be.
