Steve Chen (Steven Shih Chen) Quotes
There are a lot of services trying to solve the information discovery problem, and no one has got it right yet.
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I really don't have the time to spend much time online, I do have web tv, which I use when I need information.
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You can't solve a dignity problem with military force.
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We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.
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If I couldn't see the colors, now that would be a problem.
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The Internet is programmable information. The blockchain is programmable scarcity.
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Our problem is not adopting reforms, which we will do without question. It is not reaching an objective, which we will meet. But it is finding an end to the recession.
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Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
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If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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We have dealt with the Arab/Muslim problem in the American media in every single way but through comedy. Hollywood has always been lagging behind comedy... We can make fun of ourselves, too, and I'm inviting us to laugh with us - and all the misconceptions.
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The problem with Donald Trump is that he went and designed a brand that is entirely amoral.
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The problem is too often they are boring, and boring in a meeting happens for the same reason as in a book or movie - when there is not enough compelling tension. Meetings should be intense.
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This is where the block chain is most useful and revolutionary: It helps us to overcome the problem of mutual trust in exchange, which will, in turn, make many of our modern central institutions unnecessary.
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I'm not very good at going to sleep, and that's probably my worst problem. I don't need much more than seven and a half hours, but I probably get six. I take all my problems to bed with me and fret. I can't switch off.
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But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.
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Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.
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If you're not open, you're not transparent, you're still holding on to vaults of information, you're not going to build that trust.
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Words that add no new information or aren't repeated for emphasis are just padding. A sentence may carry three or five or eight of them, each one as unnoticeable as an extra two ounces on your hips but collectively adding up to a large burden of fat.
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I am uncomfortable talking about the things that I write. It seems unseemly to me. I have no problem at all when I see anybody else talking about the same project, but I feel my work should speak for itself.
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Many artists have not been able to realise their fondest projects. My role is to help them.
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Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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What I do like is hiking. And that's what filmmaking is. It's a hike. It's challenging and exhausting, and you don't know what the terrain is going to be or necessarily even which direction you're going in... but it sure is beautiful.
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What Mexicans want and aspire to, is to go there and work temporarily and raise some money and come back home. That's what they want, so nobody's asking for those two, three million Mexicans that are illegally in the United States to become American citizens.
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There are a lot of services trying to solve the information discovery problem, and no one has got it right yet.
