Aimee Liu Quotes
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Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
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A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
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I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.
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We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.
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The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
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We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of the tropics.
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Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god?
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Obama ran as sane and decent, as though we were electing a mood, and not necessarily a set of policies. Unfortunately, Obama has governed the same way - and misread the mood, which is all there is, really, because being crazy and stupid is all we're really good at politically any more.
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I spend most of my career as a management consultant, a businessman working with family-owned small and medium-sized businesses. The businesses that make up the core of our economy.
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Is anything, in all respects, so influential as consideration? Does it not, by a kindly anticipation, create the divisions of the active life itself, in a manner rehearsing and arranging beforehand what has to be done?
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Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
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I grew up in a home where diamonds were the subject.
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Torvalds, Linus (2007-03-19). The Torvalds Transcript: Why I 'Absolutely Love' GPL Version 2. Retrieved on 2008-12-31.
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Error sometimes supplies the surprise that makes life interesting.
