Nolan Bushnell Quotes
I try to get a vision of the future, and then I try to figure out where the discontinuities are.
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I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.
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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
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Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision that most people think is crazy. They convince the kids why it's important to accomplish the goal. And they are totally relentless.
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I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.
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We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.
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We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
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I'm pretty low-key and try to do fun things.
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When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn't wear makeup or worry about how their hair looked, and everybody wore sensible, comfortable clothes. It ran into an absolute brick wall.
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I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
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Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.
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The techniques of being an Internet visionary are just like those of lower-tech fortunetellers through the ages. A technological visionary must tell people what they want to hear, because your company's stock won't rise if you spout an unpopular vision to analysts.
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I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.
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What we can afford least is to define the problem of future war as we would like it to be and, by doing so, introduce into our defense vulnerabilities based on self-delusion.
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Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
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I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.
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Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future.
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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
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The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.
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Our vision of a sustainable future will only materialize through action taken today.
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In the future, fast-fashion retailers might change their philosophy toward real efforts to create a world of their own. One can only hope.
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Society is better off without certain people.
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I get letters from [people getting insurance] right now. "You saved my child's life." "I did not have to sell my home when my wife got sick." And that is what, as a policy maker, I'm trying to achieve during the short period of time that I'm here.
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Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.
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I try to get a vision of the future, and then I try to figure out where the discontinuities are.
