Bill Ford Quotes
It's amazing how much data is out there. The question is how do we put it in a form that's usable?
Quotes to Explore
-
Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.
-
People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.
-
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.
-
I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
-
Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
-
Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.
-
I have to admit I can be pretty high strung and tightly wound.
-
Certain struggles never end.
-
Newt Gingrich is a boastful kind of guy. But when it comes to Wall Street, the former House speaker is surprisingly modest.
-
I think if we give kids a break in education, we would have fewer crimes being committed. If we keep them on track, they know that they have options. It's important for me because, you know, my life would've been different had I not had the education that I had.
-
One of the blessings I've had, really, for my entire career, is working with founders of companies, whether it was Bill Ziff at Ziff Davis or with Jerry Yang and David Filo at Yahoo.
-
I don't want to be size zero and I'm glad I'm not.
-
Investing is about making probabilistic decisions with limited information about an unknowable future. The variables are well known, as are the possible outcomes.
-
In high school, my mom's friend was a location scout, and there was a shoot at our house. I came home from school, and the photographer said, 'You should call my friend at this agency.'
-
I have appointed you his friend, the sculptor Francis Chantry one of my executors. Will you promise to see me rolled up in it in Turner's painting 'Carthage'? ('Yes', responded his friend 'and I promise you also that, as soon as you are buried, I will see you taken up and unrolled.'
-
Who is going to educate the human race in the principles and practice of conservation?
-
It was actually my partner, Bernard Edwards, who helped me develop my sort of funky jazz style.
-
When you're playing against a whole bunch of All-Stars, it's like a video game. There's so much talent on the floor at once.
-
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
-
Many legitimate forms of ownership, mainly cooperative and communal, had not been used to any effective extent mainly because of the imposition of Stalinist restrictions.
-
The first wedding dress I ever made was for myself. It was at a time when I had my business up and running, but it was still very early days, and I thought, 'This is my moment to do whatever I like.'
-
Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.
-
And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field.
-
It's amazing how much data is out there. The question is how do we put it in a form that's usable?
