Gabe Newell Quotes
I remember back in the early days of Microsoft that from the day that you decided that you were just going to put out an ad to a customer - and all you were usually able to tell them was that a new product was available - it was about nine months before you could actually reach the first customer.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
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That's everybody's goal, when they come to the league, is to win a Super Bowl. That's the ultimate goal.
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You work with some people, you see a spark in them and you can't help praising them. But everyone has their own destiny. No one can make anyone. Who reaches where and when, is all written.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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When I started blogging in 2004, I responded to every comment no matter how nasty the reader was. I was generally polite, believing that these critics would be so charmed by my professionalism that they would see the error of their misogynist ways and swiftly run out to read a bell hooks book. Ha!
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I remember back in the early days of Microsoft that from the day that you decided that you were just going to put out an ad to a customer - and all you were usually able to tell them was that a new product was available - it was about nine months before you could actually reach the first customer.
