Nick Szabo Quotes
There's a strong distinction to be made between dry code smart contacts and wet code's physical law. So law is based on our minds, our wetware - it's based on analogy. The law is more flexible; software is more rigid. Various laws tend to be batched in jurisdictional silos. Software tends to be independent.
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If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.
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One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.
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Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.
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I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I wish I had brothers and sisters, friends say it's not what it's cracked up to be, but I think it must be good to have someone who knew you from the beginning.
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My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.
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The BBC is part of the glue which binds the United Kingdom together. At those times of national moment - of joy or sadness, in the UK or around the world, at times when the nation wants to celebrate, mourn or just enjoy itself people turn to the BBC.
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Of what use is genius, if the organ is too convex or too concave and cannot find a focal distance within the actual horizon of human life?
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The cause of war is preparation for war.
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Be content - Expansions, diffusions - content to be The unspotted imbecile revery, The heraldic center of the world Of blue, blue sleek with a hundred chins, The amorist Adjective aflame...
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You can't close your eyes to the lies perpetrated by dangerous fools / 'cos they're handing out rules
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Find me in the shadows, and pull the shades down until tomorrow.
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For my part, I favour an approach to statecraft that embraces principles, as long as it is not stifled by them; and I prefer such principles to be accompanied by steel along with good intentions.
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I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today.
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I write in a rush of memory.
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Knievel seemed braver and more brazen - and more unhinged - than any other athlete-cum-thrill-seeker of his era.
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I have a good shopping relationship with my mum. She lets me buy, and she spectates. I take advice from her, and I give it, too.
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I love taking pictures of food.
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I have fought a really local and positive campaign full of energy and enthusiasm and I think that came across. I’m not nervous, I’m honour and humbled to be elected, I appreciate the big challenge ahead, I have two children aged two and four so I am used to the challenge.
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London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.
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Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.
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There's a strong distinction to be made between dry code smart contacts and wet code's physical law. So law is based on our minds, our wetware - it's based on analogy. The law is more flexible; software is more rigid. Various laws tend to be batched in jurisdictional silos. Software tends to be independent.
