Steve Jurvetson (Stephen T. Jurvetson) Quotes
When a nanotech company matures and becomes a real business, it becomes something else. It becomes a biotech company or a cleantech company or a memory chip company. Nanotechnology has fueled the core innovations in electronics and energy.
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As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
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Everybody needs money, but I'm a fighter. For what I make, I'm happy with what I make. The money is not everything; it's about honor.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.
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I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.
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For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.
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Sometimes we have to take on jobs that we don't love, and I always encourage any creative person to use those as the fuel to do the things that you do love to do, even if they don't pay.
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I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.
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Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.
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To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
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I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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Illinois has the opportunity to lead the country in providing more affordable health care options to its citizens.
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Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing.
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Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.
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I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.
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In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.
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Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.
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We're not trying to be a mega-pop-band, but we also wouldn't be opposed to selling millions of records, either.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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As the Spanish proverb says, 'He, who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
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When a nanotech company matures and becomes a real business, it becomes something else. It becomes a biotech company or a cleantech company or a memory chip company. Nanotechnology has fueled the core innovations in electronics and energy.
