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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On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?
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It's not in the draftsmanship, it's in the man. Like I say, a tool is dead. A brush is a dead object. It's in the man. If you want to do it, you do it.
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He who talks much cannot talk well.
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Whether we are aware of it or not, whether we are in control of it or not, there is a first creation to every part of our lives. We are either the second creation of our own proactive design, or we are the second creation of other people's agendas, of circumstances, or of past habits.
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Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption.
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But you know what? It's not my behavior I'm worried about anymore. It's yours.
