Stewart Butterfield (Daniel Stewart Butterfield) Quotes
For most companies, the hard thing is making the product work well enough to convince a single person at a time to switch to it.
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Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.
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I moved to Paris for two years, then to London, then New York in 2002. In that time, I also lived in Japan, Italy, Germany - I've been a bit of a gypsy.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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The best way to catch my attention is to throw a Twinkie near my face.
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Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
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The more people told me that, you know, wow, you should be so blessed. Don't you feel blessed? And you have all this – mansion and all these beautiful things. And I said, you know - the more they told me that, the more depressed I got.
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In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
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Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
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Superficial similarities exist between Christianity and some ancient pagan religions. But careful study reveals that there are far more dissimilarities.
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Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.
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Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.
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Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.
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We can't win at home. We can't win on the road. As general manager, I just can't figure out where else to play.
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'The Grand Budapest Hotel' is not really my thing, but I kind of loved it.
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I think that we're always drawn - particularly sophisticated people - are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.
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Clearly the success of the Netflix model, releasing the entire season of 'House of Cards' at once, proved one thing: The audience wants the control. They want the freedom. If they want to binge as they've been doing on 'House of Cards' and lots of other shows, we should let them binge.
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I have talked to more people who are in politics who have said to me, "[House of Cards] is closer than you can imagine. It's the most accurate description of how politics actually works that we've ever seen." I mean, West Wing - beautiful, wonderful idea of how democracy should work. But I've had more people in politics say they think House of Cards is closer. I - don't know whether to take that as a compliment or a sad state of affairs.
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I consider myself to be a crusader of love. I try to spread love around the world as best I can because I know I have a handle on love.
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The present U.N. must be annihilated by our power. That is the stage for Communists. We must make a new U.N.
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If a painting contains no abstraction nor impressionistic elements, it is a kite that will never fly. But if the painting completely breaks the connection between human feeling and the object portrayed, the kite string has been broken. I try to keep the line unbroken.
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I am a very shy person who is just close to himself. So I would refrain from talking about my personal life.
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I can't say that I've ever tried to hurt someone or humiliate them intentionally. My parents raised me to always be the bigger person or to treat others the way you want to be treated.
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For most companies, the hard thing is making the product work well enough to convince a single person at a time to switch to it.
