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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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 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'd make a million songs with Game because we never had no real problem.
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I think it is a universal problem that we are so often cruel to the people we love.
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You know, I said I have this problem that I need to more carefully read Akron's text because it's too much, too much fantasy, and so I am busy with other stuff - it's funny, it's nice to hear that someone is studying that carefully and now I know a little bit more about that.
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I think my husband did a pretty good job in the 1990s.
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Any time I am involved in something from conception to execution, that's obviously a lot more personal, and I'm going to be more invested in it than something where I just show up for a couple days, shoot, and leave.
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If you want to cut down a tree, it is no use to climb into its branches.
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She lived too close to despair to have any strength left for self-knowledge. She might have been able to acknowledge herself unloved but to know herself unloving was beyond her strength.
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In Scripture the visitation of an angel is always alarming; it has to begin by saying 'Fear not.' The Victorian angel looks as if it were going to say, 'There, there.' The literary symbols are more dangerous than sculptures and pictures because they are not so easily recognized as symbolical. Those of Dante are best. Before his angels we sink in awe.
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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.
