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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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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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'm not big on looking up myself. I don't get Google alerts, and I don't look on blogs.
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I am interested in all things that celebrate and enhance the female form.
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When I'm playing the 1-guard, I'm kind of seeing everything that's going on. When I play the 2, I have a more broader understanding of what's going on and where the screens are being set in order for not only myself to get open, but for my teammates.
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I stopped smoking. But my personality I still have. I get up in the morning, and not everybody loves me, so if you want to call that a bad habit, there's that.
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Anything by D. H. Lawrence or Jean Genet - 'Zen Mind,' 'Beginner's Mind' is my daily go to for non-fiction.
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You have to think of a restaurant as a series of impressions. But what makes my job so great is there's no one answer that's right for every restaurant.
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Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.
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Riesling? It smells like an intensive care ward.
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If a subordinate performs a task and the outcome is not what you expected, don’t attack their intelligence or their character. Politely explain the deficiencies and offer an idea for a solution. Subordinates quickly lose respect for any leader who is “all problem and no solution.
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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.
