Mitch Kapor Quotes
People are hungry for community. They're hungry for meaning in a society that is oriented around the production and consumption of consumer goods.
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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I accept you, and you get the same respect from me whether you are black, white, gay straight, Asian, bisexual, Australian, tall, fat, whatever it is. We are all people, and I look at the people of the world the same way, as my brothers and sisters.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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Touring is an incredibly isolated situation. I don't know how people tour for years on end. You find a lot of people who can't stop touring, and it's because they don't know how to come back into life. It's sort of unreal.
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I would never call a neighbor an enemy. But I would request the neighbor to be a good neighbor, to see that the neighbor's interest is a stable prosperous neighbor, a neighbor that is doing well.
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At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.
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I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.
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Obviously, 'Lincoln' is not about the telegraph operator. There's a whole other movie before and after the two isolated scenes that I'm in.
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There are no right answers to wrong questions.
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The experiencing self lives in the moment; it is the one that answers the question, 'Does it hurt?' or 'What were you thinking about just now?' The remembering self is the one that answers questions about the overall evaluation of episodes or periods of one's life, such as a stay in the hospital or the years since one left college.
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It's disturbing to people that the small David can disturb the big Goliath.
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There is something about a mortarboard that gives otherwise sane and normal people the overwhelming urge to burden you with advice. Some of them cannot help themselves. They were asked to do it by a committee. But one can only take so many pieces of wisdom before they all start to blur together.
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We will be victorious, and they will be defeated.
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People are hungry for community. They're hungry for meaning in a society that is oriented around the production and consumption of consumer goods.
