Eugene Jarvis (Eugene Peyton Jarvis) Quotes
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My whole career I'm used to playing a lot of games.
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I'm named after a computer and grew up really interested in them.
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I played lots of fantasy games. I would create these worlds, and I would believe in them.
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Before I got into electronic games, I was making table-top games.
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Qualifying for the Olympic Games was one of those moments where you just cry because it was like you've climbed Mount Everest.
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I think the pop industry is still a young man's game.
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Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?
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Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.
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The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.
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Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher.
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We've got a good group of guys, and the character is strong. Whether we win or lose the game, I told them the best gift you can give him is to go all out and lay it on the line. I hope the next two or three games we go through will exhibit that.
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The corollary of constant change is ignorance. This is not often talked about: we computer experts barely know what we're doing. We're good at fussing and figuring out. We function well in a sea of unknowns. Our experience has only prepared us to deal with confusion. A programmer who denies this is probably lying, or else is densely unaware of himself.
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Foxy knows of him. (Flint's) mother still teaches here, so he's around. He goes to the games and works out in the gym. He's around all the kids.
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There's going to be games like that, games that are going to be up there (offensively), especially with the accuracy on three-pointers that they did tonight.
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The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle - a mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game. If the right pressure could be applied to him, he would be cheerfully in favor of polygamy, astrology or cannibalism.
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Once you find your lane, you can't cruise;
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Matrimony is the only game of chance the clergy favor.
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I was never good at hide and seek because I'd always make enough noise so my friends would be sure to find me. I don't have anyone to play those games with any more, but now and then I make enough noise just in case someone is still looking and hasn't found me yet.
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As an emotional eater, I eat to soothe.
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It is courage the world needs, not infallibility...courage is always the surest wisdom.
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A lot of us would like to move mountains, but few of us are willing to practice on small hills.
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Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; our minds are so disposed to judge from the event.
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The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.
