Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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Civil lawsuits do two important things: they compensate people who are injured by the bad acts of others, and they penalize people and companies for bad behavior.
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You don't put milk in chamomile tea - that's disgusting behavior! That's not right.
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You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.
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I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior.
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If we'd had another carefree 70's, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.
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Californians are worried about whether they will have a job along with ballooning federal spending and deficits.
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If someone is not treating you in a way that you like, remember that there are so many nice people out there. The problem is that when you love someone, you make excuses for that kind of behavior.
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We were intrigued by the fact that we had so much actual behavior among people on our dating site, OKCupid.
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I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'
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The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterprise companies is they are not as subject to consumer trend, fad, behavior.
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The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
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It is actually the neuroscientists and evolutionists who do the best job of explaining the reasons behind the most unreasonable behavior.
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I have made hundreds of dives in submersibles, with each dive holding the promise of seeing an organism or a behavior that no one has ever seen before. But I have always wondered about the animals and behaviors that we're not seeing because our bright lights and loud thrusters scare them away.
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Enzymologists usually study the initial rates of reactions measuring product formation as a function of substrate concentration or other variable. Cell biologists are more likely to want to know the effect of a change on the steady state behavior of a complex system.
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Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.
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Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior.
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Your desires will source you with the inspiration to release your outdated beliefs and let go of whatever behavior is keeping you stuck in the past.
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Elites are once again invoking Reagan, dropping their Gs and saying things in a folksy sort of way thats meant to capture the hearts of people. And its all fraud; its all stagecraft. And people are falling for a great deal of elite behavior in this country packaged as if its proletariat behavior.
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All we want is a confident dude to come straight up... maybe. Just walk up and say, 'Hey, what's up?' And start from there.
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Diversity is not just about the differences you like.
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Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war.
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We still have very little understanding of how we can tweak form or shape at the genetic level. We certainly haven't unlocked those secrets.
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But you know what? It's not my behavior I'm worried about anymore. It's yours.
