Jack Dangermond Quotes
GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.
Quotes to Explore
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My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.
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Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
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I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.
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We need to see a Palestinian state.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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Experimenting with your own life is the most fundamental medium we have.
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All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.
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I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!
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If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
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When you're never home and traveling, you don't play videogames.
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Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.
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There's nothing interesting about seeing our characters for an hour and a half do some flashy flying in the sky and beating up on some buildings. It's boring, and people don't want that anymore. They want character, and they want story.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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I'm wildly different than Maria Bamford or Sarah Silverman, and might be more similar to some male comics.
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I just want to be in good things that I want to see, and I want to work with talented people who are smarter than myself.
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When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou taught me that.
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Make a man laugh a good hearty laugh, and you've paved the way for friendship. When a man laughs with you, he, to some extent, likes you.
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GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.
