Mitchel Resnick Quotes
I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own.
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
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With the rapid growth of Internet users in China bringing online video into a new paradigm, the market scale we first envisioned as an online video website back in 2006 has grown significantly.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.
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I have wandered over Europe, have rambled to Iceland, climbed the Alps, been for some years lodged among the marshes of Essex - yet nothing that I have seen has quenched in me the longing after the fresh air, and love of the wild scenery, of Dartmoor.
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Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison?
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I was born in the Midwest, where 'salad' was cherry Jell-O with bananas in it. Now children are more aware of healthy foods.
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I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.
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Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
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What's really good is African drum music.
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I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't.
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That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
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I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
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My musical career was an accident.
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These tensions, and the trade situation, are not supportive to any of the players in aerospace, we don't think we'll be losing more than the other guys in that situation, but we think it should be resolved in one way or another that enables global businesses like aviation to continue to grow.
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The mistrust of government that blossomed in the late '60s has become a chronic and in some ways pathological condition.
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I dropped out of high school and I couldn't go to college 'cause I wasn't smart enough, so I'd resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.
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I was absolutely floored as a lot of people are but also I was reunited with ideas that I actually had as a teenager and these are ideas that I had put away as I approached college years because they were ridiculous on the face of it and when you talk to someone about living forever, they just dismiss you out of hand.
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We don't need sugar to live, and we don't need it as a society.
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I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own.
