Andrew S. Tanenbaum Quotes
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t0 is blockchain-agnostic so, ultimately, we can use anybody's blockchain.
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Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble cause, and that's where we should be heading. But once we get past that - once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with - when we start thinking about the future, there's an opportunity to create some new life-forms.
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I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
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I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.
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Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
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Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
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Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
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Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.'
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The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death.
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When you work this intensely on something, the recording process becomes a bit like cabin fever. I shut everything out and, for a while, I totally lost perspective. To an outsider, I imagine the whole recording process sounds like torture.
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But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.
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Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.
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We gotta be proud to be Latino. It's almost like we cheating because we're American and we live by American customs, but at the same time, we got that Latino culture. We cheating; we double dipping.
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One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.
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I hadn't worked for a couple of years so I thought it would be nice to earn some money and pay the bills.
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Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
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As Ralph's character begins to discover the political thriller aspect of the film, he falls deeper in love with his wife, so the two run together. That's the beauty of this film. It has fast pace and excitement, but it also has heart and soul.
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There are some fantastic parts for older actors.
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What a weak, credulous, incredulous, unbelieving, superstitious, bold, frightened, what a ridiculous world ours is, as far as concerns the mind of man. How full of inconsistencies, contradictions and absurdities it is. I declare that taking the average of many minds that have recently come before me ... I should prefer the obedience, affections and instinct of a dog before it.
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According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.
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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.
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The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from.
