Harper Reed Quotes

I would still describe myself as a hacker. I still remember feeling the magic, the sense of discovery, when I first connected to a bulletin board. It seemed like the world was somehow brighter, the greens were greener. Like I'd stepped through a portal to the other side. I knew back then that things would never be the same again for me.

Harper Reed

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• Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Earth
  • Positive
  • Pollution

• Don't fight forces, use them.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Fight
  • Use
  • Forces

• I was invited to a dinner party by an ex, and I was convinced that he wanted to rekindle our relationship. I prohibited my friends from coming with me because I didn't want to make it awkward for them when he professed his love to me.

  

  Chrissie Fit
  • Friends
  • Relationship
  • Party

• In my experience, men are not necessarily less sensitive or compassionate than women are, and women are not necessarily any less aggressive or competitive than men are - as a matter of fact, often they are more so!

  

  Andrew Cohen
  • Men
  • Women
  • Experience

• We should look back now and then. Our politicians should look back every now and then.

  

  Max von Sydow

• I think that the old Mothers started that trend of rehearsing long hours. We went as long as the later bands did except we didn't get paid for it like they did.

  

  James Carl Inkanish, Jr.
  • Long

• What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you've laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone.

  

  Joan Didion
  • Time

• Some of us have become so addicted to pointing fingers at others for all the wrong that happens in our lives that self-assessment has become synonymous with blaming the victim.

  

  LZ Granderson

• No one I know is actually so rude as to tell me I've become duller since having children. But I'm sure they think it.

  

  Jo Brand
  • Children
  • Rude

• I've done 21 films in eight years, and I've said 'No' more times than I've done films.

  

  Mekhi Phifer
  • Done

• Nelson '...People are crazy. At times when I'm with clients I can't see the difference between them and me, except for the structure we're all in. I get paid, a little, and they get taken care of, a little.'

  

  John Updike
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Taken

• One of the things that is counterintuitive about BuzzFeed is that there's not a natural corollary to what we're doing because it isn't possible to distribute content through word-of-mouth in print.

  

  Jonah Peretti

• A lot of people notice when you succeed, but they don't see what it takes to get there.

  

  Dawn Staley
  • People
  • Success
  • inspirational

• I think conspiracy theories have gotten more and more close to the mainstream because what you've got is a fragmentation of the media, where the media becomes much more polarized today, left and right.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Today
  • Media
  • Theory

• Now that we have a true leader who stands for family and has a loving relationship with his wife, maybe black men and women will follow their example. We have a lot of faith and trust in President Obama because his integrity thus far has shown us a new level of manhood, fatherhood and husbandhood.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?

  

  Cal Thomas
  • Freedom
  • Honor
  • Lonely

• The first set I remember was 'Ghostbusters.' It was a scene in which the street erupted. I remember even at seven years old thinking, 'Wow, if you direct a movie, you can break the streets of New York.'

  

  Jason Reitman
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Movie

• I love working in Canada. The ovation is great. It makes me feel like I'm the top dog.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Great
  • Like
  • Feel

• I think a draft produces a better Army than the one we would have with all volunteers, because I think you get average Americans if you have a draft. And if it's an all-volunteer Army, you get people who join up because of some problem in their own lives. They don't have anything else to do, they don't have a job, or they can't find what they want to do, so they join the Army. And it doesn't produce the best Army.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• There is a difference between being a hacker and the "socially inadequate computer geek" vision of the press. It's definitely true that there is a lot of overlap. A lot of good hackers are, however, members of the human race and know what is going on in the real world.

  

  Alan Cox
  • World
  • Good
  • Real

• I would still describe myself as a hacker. I still remember feeling the magic, the sense of discovery, when I first connected to a bulletin board. It seemed like the world was somehow brighter, the greens were greener. Like I'd stepped through a portal to the other side. I knew back then that things would never be the same again for me.

  

  Harper Reed
  • Hacker
  • Bulletin board