Miguel de Icaza Quotes
Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.
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I was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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So, I'm on 'Sesame Street,' walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. 'Sesame Street' is just a crazy great place to be.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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We should work to de-link health insurance from employment so if you lose your job, your health insurance goes with you and it is personal, portable and affordable.
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You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.
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I don't do the L.A. scene. I stay focused and very myopic. I don't feel I need to prove myself or be in people's faces, especially in this town.
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You can't meditate on walking or certain human habits. You concentrate too much on the way you walk, and you'll start walking pretty weird.
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Americans welcome carbon limits because they want to protect their families from harm.
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I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
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Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. He was the master of suspense, certainly, but visually you would get a lot of information from what he would do with the camera and what he would allow you to see as the story was unfolding.
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The only satisfied rationalists today are blinkered scientists or Marxists.
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Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization.
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Hurricane Katrina has starkly illustrated what real poverty exists in our country today, ... To cut holes in the health care safety-net for our fellow Americans in need is unconscionable. It is immoral to ask people who have lost everything to pay more for health care.
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Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.
