Peter Thiel Quotes

Most of 'big data' is a fraud because it is really 'dumb data.'

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• Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and everyone just loving themselves.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Me
  • Equal
  • Empowerment

• The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Baseball

• I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Forget
  • Bosnia

• A well begun is half ended.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Half
  • Well
  • Ended

• Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • May
  • Democracy
  • Feet

• My record speaks for itself.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Record
  • Speaks
  • Itself

• It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.

  

  Ed Balls
  • People
  • Country
  • War

• Unfortunately we - and I'm speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that's where I come from - we still, I think, are a little bit macho. Not that we only live in a macho world, but we also think as a macho world; even the women, you know? The women in Mexico, because that's the way we were raised.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • World
  • Women
  • Live

• I don't believe in asking God for anything. If I am worthy, He will give it to me. I think we should earn his blessings; I have never believed in mannats.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • God
  • Believe
  • Blessings

• The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • Important
  • First

• With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Hard
  • Exposure

• Americans are somehow obsessed with her, and something about me hit a spot with people in Japan.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Me
  • Obsessed

• We do not advocate 'right to life' for animals.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Life

• Me.

  

  Hank Aaron

• Larry poured himself a coffee. 'I hate when they come in here with computers. They sit forever at their tables, and they don't talk to nobody, it's like having a place full of statues or zombies.'

  

  Cory Doctorow
  • Hate
  • Forever
  • Coffee

• Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in. It's change you can Xerox.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Believe
  • Lifting

• Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.

  

  Aphra Behn
  • Patience

• The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls - the worst man is as strong as the best at that game; it does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Country
  • Game
  • Strong

• China is an area where we need to be present. Lots of companies want to supply their products to China.

  

  Gennady Timchenko
  • Present

• Every time you get into a new job, new location, you have an amazing opportunity in front of you. You get to play dumb for as long as people will allow you to play dumb. You get to ask all the dumb questions, you get to ask multiple people the dumb questions, and you get to make mistakes. That's how you stand out in the crowd.

  

  Gary Cohn
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I write... for laymen and scientists, because the reader who is interested in any activity which needs thought and judgement is... a person to whom science can be made to speak, It is not he who is deaf, but the specialists who have been dumb-the specialists in the arts as well as in the sciences.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Science
  • Dumb

• To win a moral victory at the expense of your sanity is dumb.

  

  Stuart Wilde
  • Winning
  • Moral
  • Victory

• I'm a huge Joe Nichols fan, and he put this song out an album called 'Real Things.' I was excited for Joe when I heard it, thinking 'that will easily be Joe Nichols' career song.' I was even more excited when they got out of that album and they never released it as a single, because then I was like, 'Now that's gonna be my career single.'

  

  Blake Shelton
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Career

• Most of 'big data' is a fraud because it is really 'dumb data.'

  

  Peter Thiel
  • Dumb