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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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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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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If you gave me an hour in the day between '09 and '14, I could have told you exactly where I was and what I was doing.
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Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.
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Germany is our second biggest trade partner after China, but some time ago it was first. China is developing rapidly and has already become the world's largest economy in terms of purchasing power parity. At any rate, as you know, on 8 October China was recognised as such, but naturally the US economy is much bigger overall for the time being.
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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.
