Scott McNealy Quotes
Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too.
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Our poker table is eight guys, and then I'm the ninth; I'm usually the only girl at the table.
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I love working back home, but it is a small country, and we do get tired of watching each other.
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My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.
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So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?
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A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.
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We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
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I was always drawn toward the Actor's Studio. I studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute when I first came to New York. One of my favorite teachers was one of Al [Pachino]'s teachers, a guy named Charlie Laughton, who was just a wonderful, wonderful man.
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Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry
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When women fight for a higher salary, they can often feel guilty. When men fight for more pay, they feel empowered. I've always wanted to encourage women to go after the money they deserve.
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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.
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Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing.
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Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision. They insert lots of layers of middle management between the people running the company and the people doing the work. They no longer have an inherent feel or a passion about the products. The creative people, who are the ones who care passionately, have to persuade five layers of management to do what they know is the right thing to do.
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Life is a dance, enjoy every step.
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Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.
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There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.
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I believe in mystery and, frankly, I sometimes face this mystery with great fear. In other words, I think that there are many things in the universe that we cannot perceive or penetrate, and that also we experience some of the most beautiful things in life only in a very primitive form. Only in relation to these mysteries do I consider myself to be a religious man.
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What is better than to love and live with the loved? – But that must sometimes bring us to live with the dead; and this too turns at last into a very tranquil and sweet tie, safe from change and injury.
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Economically, it’s more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.
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Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too.
