Wendy Kopp Quotes
Education must be the only sector that hasn't already been completely revolutionized by technology.
Quotes to Explore
-
I would love to be a role model.
-
You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
-
Really? Worst film you ever saw. Well, my next one will be better. Hello. Hello.
-
Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
-
Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many of those sectors, they weren't as early as Tencent.
-
I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
-
He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
-
Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.
-
One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.
-
If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.
-
I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
-
Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
-
I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.
-
I guess he wanted to see a little more sexual activity because in real life, in bed I think less is more and let the woman come to me. Frankly, I don't even need a woman there.
-
What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.
-
I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
-
There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
-
While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
-
[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on the high altar. And on the altar, very reverently place, intensely there, is a dead kitten, an egg-shell, a bit of string.
-
I think we're going to demonstrate the power of one-to-one computer access that's going to transform education. … The economic future will belong to the technologically adept.
-
My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.
-
Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth:If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.
-
I think a cyber-terrorism attack is overblown, though the threat exists. I think al Qaeda and other groups are more interested in symbolic terrorism, like what they did to the World Trade Center - suicide bombers or something that really has an effect and is meaningful to people.
-
Education must be the only sector that hasn't already been completely revolutionized by technology.
