Michael Arrington Quotes

Success in Silicon Valley, most would agree, is more merit-driven than almost any other place in the world. It doesn't matter how old you are, what sex you are, what politics you support or what color you are. If your idea rocks and you can execute, you can change the world and/or get really, stinking rich.

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• China has an almost infinite need for energy, and frankly, the world would be better off if much of that need goes in the direction of wind power.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • World
  • Power
  • Energy

• The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Children
  • Growing

• I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • God
  • Art

• People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • World
  • Best
  • Evil

• The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.

  

  Larry Page
  • World
  • Long
  • Search

• There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • World
  • Energy
  • Kind

• Many children with cancer in the developing world can be cured. But without appropriate treatment, few survive.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • World
  • Children
  • Cancer

• My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Mother
  • Educated

• As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • World
  • Women
  • Experience

• Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can't put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit out results from your inexact assumptions and give you a false sense of security. In most cases, your heart and gut are still your best guide.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • World
  • Real
  • Heart

• I went to drama school in England, and you spend your first year working on the muscles surrounding the vocal mechanisms. You learn how you support it and create characters through your voice so that became an obsession. So I went to Hollywood thinking, 'Oh, I'm going to be one of the great voice-over artists.'

  

  Lake Bell
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • School

• That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • World
  • Picture
  • Museum

• The winters are too long, and there's only one airline, so it's difficult to escape when you feel frustrated or claustrophobic. The audience for our films isn't very large, so it's difficult to support an industry. But, Iceland is beautiful. Sometimes it's hard to imagine living anywhere else.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Long
  • Beautiful
  • Support

• The one thing about The Weeknd is that he's gone between the world of trap music and pop music and blended them together, so it makes it interesting in that way. That's what I like about him.

  

  Babyface
  • World
  • Music
  • Together

• Even a dickhead would do a better job than Ilyumzhinov. The chaos in the chess world is caused by 'leaders' who are unable to do their job properly.

  

  Anatoly Karpov
  • World
  • Job
  • Chaos

• I have visited the cities and towns across America and seen the devastation caused by the trade policies of Bill and Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton supported Bill Clinton's disastrous NAFTA, just like she supported China's entrance into the World Trade Organization.

  

  Donald Trump
  • World
  • She
  • America

• The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • World
  • Art

• The Anarchists set off World War I with a gunshot in Sarajevo - but they faded away. It wasn't that the police drove them out of business. The ideology had nowhere to go except into permanent negativity.

  

  Pete Hamill
  • World
  • Business
  • War

• The world is a chessboard, Madam, on which we play out our ploys and follies. You are the Queen, of course. Your moves are the strongest. For myself, I claim only to be a knight, advancing in a crooked progress. Do we move ourselves, do you think, or does a great gloved hand place on our squares

  

  Catherine Fisher
  • Life
  • World
  • Progress

• Most of us have to think worst-case scenario.

  

  Willie Parker
  • Think
  • Scenario

• Damn referees, I'll miss them less than anybody.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • Miss
  • Less
  • Damn

• Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.

  

  Ben Okri
  • Art
  • Creativity

• Success in Silicon Valley, most would agree, is more merit-driven than almost any other place in the world. It doesn't matter how old you are, what sex you are, what politics you support or what color you are. If your idea rocks and you can execute, you can change the world and/or get really, stinking rich.

  

  Michael Arrington
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