Nick D'Aloisio Quotes
I thought of the idea of Summly in March or April 2011. I was 15 years old and I was revising for some kind of history exam. The problem was I was trying to find information that was useful to me. When you type into Google an esoteric term, you get quite a lot of stuff that's not relevant.
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.
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Americans have not only a right but a responsibility to consider the values of those who seek to lead them - whether they arise from life experience, political ideology or religious belief.
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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.
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I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.
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I'd love to make a thriller.
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When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.
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I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.
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I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.
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According to our estimates, the Hungarians working in the U.K. altogether pay more contributions and taxes than the benefits that they get. So we belong to the world of the fair working people.
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There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.
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Craigslist is not only gigantic in scale and totally resistant to business cooperation, it is also mostly free.
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Ronald Isley is a musical genius.
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But, I've always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.
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The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.
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The flowers are Nature's jewels, with whose wealth she decks her summer beauty.
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Life is funny like that; just about the time you’re able to fully appreciate the accommodations, you’re checking out of the hotel.
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An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.
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On the one hand I have a clear and distinct idea of myself, in so far as I am a thinking, non-extended thing; and on the other hand I have a distinct idea of body, in so far a this is simply an extended, non-thinking thing. And, accordingly, it is certain that I am really distinct from my body, and exist without it.
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I do feel like the hardest thing is to do something simple and tap into whatever remains of our common language rather than cultivating your own willfully esoteric vocabulary.
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I thought of the idea of Summly in March or April 2011. I was 15 years old and I was revising for some kind of history exam. The problem was I was trying to find information that was useful to me. When you type into Google an esoteric term, you get quite a lot of stuff that's not relevant.
