Reed Hastings (Wilmot Reed Hastings Jr.) Quotes

I'm on the Facebook board now. Little did they know that I thought Facebook was really stupid when I first heard about it back in 2005.

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• If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Think
  • Honor
  • Most

• The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Real
  • Power
  • Worry

• I'm not a fanatic about exercising. For me, it's about moderation and balance.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Me
  • Balance
  • Moderation

• I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my thing. I sit at home with my glass of wine and watch hours of reality TV. I have a million shows on my TiVo.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Home
  • Reality
  • Wine

• When you have Candidate A saying the sky is blue, and Candidate B saying it's a cloudy day, I look outside and I see, well, it's a cloudy day. I should be able to tell my viewers, 'Candidate A is wrong, Candidate B is right,' and not have to say, 'Well, you decide.' Then it would be like I'm an idiot.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Day
  • Sky
  • Blue

• It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • True
  • You
  • Brand

• I think people thought I was crazy for leaving Mexico when I had any project I wanted falling at my feet. But I risked everything to come to Los Angeles, where no one knew who I was, and start all over again. It was a very hard step to take. However, it was the moment I thought it was right to take a risk in my career.

  

  Karla Souza
  • People
  • Career
  • Crazy

• I'm a woman who is very confident with the body, with my body.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Woman
  • Body
  • Confident

• You don't need to recall 100,000 cars because you need to fix something. That can be done with a download of software.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Done
  • Software
  • Fix

• I don't remember a time that I didn't know how to play the guitar.

  

  Kaki King
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Play

• Our lives are pretty calm. Merging on the freeway in the closest you get to risking your life. So what's missing now is that primal emotion of being scared to death, and I think that's why people crave thrills like roller coasters or scary movies. They give you the chance to feel this very primal emotion in a very controlled environment.

  

  Oren Peli
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.

  

  Bai Ling
  • People
  • Good
  • Me

• The Church owns property, needs income, employs men, works on human material, and banks on its moral prestige. Its present efficiency and future standing are bound up for weal or woe with the social welfare of the people and with the outcome of the present struggle.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • People
  • Up
  • Men

• The people in my songs are all me.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • People

• Inflation is an increase in the quantity of money without a corresponding increase in the demand for money, i.e., for cash holdings.

  

  Ludwig von Mises
  • Money

• I think everyone has their awkward phases. Growing up isn't easy for everyone. I definitely had my awkward moments.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Moments

• It is the uninvolved parent who has to resort to strictness.

  

  Andrea Bocelli

• I'm not saying all men are likely to cheat.

  

  Jameela Jamil
  • Men

• In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you're prepared.

  

  Katherine Dunham
  • Time
  • Overcome
  • Centimeter

• The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Ancient

• To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.

  

  David Hume
  • Christian
  • Philosophical

• We should never have a doubt about Taiwan's independent status. Taiwan has been an independent and sovereign country since 23 March 1996, the day of its first direct presidential election.

  

  Annette Lu
  • Country
  • Doubt
  • Independent

• While twentieth-century physicists were not able to identify any convincing mathematical constants underlying the fine structure, partly because such thinking has normally not been encouraged, a revolutionary suggestion was recently made by the Czech physicist Raji Heyrovska, who deduced that the fine structure constant, ...really is defined by the [golden] ratio ....

  

  Carl Johan Calleman
  • Constant
  • Physicist
  • Raji Heyrovska

• I'm on the Facebook board now. Little did they know that I thought Facebook was really stupid when I first heard about it back in 2005.

  

  Reed Hastings
  • Stupid
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