Scott McNealy Quotes
Putting Windows 3.11 on top of DOS is like putting whipped cream on a road apple horse poop.
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Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.
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When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.
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I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working.
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The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.
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I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.
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I basically raised myself.
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I did a reality TV show in London called 'I'd Do Anything,' and when I got put in the program, they said, 'What is your ultimate dream?' and I said, 'Broadway.'
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Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
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I was pretty happy with how my career had gone, mainly because of the enormous freedom I've had to write what I've wanted to write. I had a very clear picture of who I was as a writer.
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America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.
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It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.
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The secret is to cook the aubergines the day before and let them dry of all the oil they drank in cooking. When you cook aubergine, they eat a lot of oil. It can be very heavy.
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Chances are if I am the one to cosign people, they will become a big part of the industry.
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They say that women dress for other women, but I don't think that's entirely true. If we want to look flossy out-and-about on a Friday night, we're dressing for the boys - and it's nice when they notice.
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Legal behavior is not incompatible with rational, self-interested behavior.
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My most serious character flaw is that I don't deny myself much.
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You know, it's no accident that the great painters came from areas like Europe where there is a lot of clouds and rain, which begets color and subtle washes of tone. Most great graphic artists come from areas with prevalent sun, where line and shadow are paramount.
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I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.
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I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.
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Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are the windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile or the light won't come in.
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We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.
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Putting Windows 3.11 on top of DOS is like putting whipped cream on a road apple horse poop.
