Werner Vogels Quotes
A service is said to be scalable if when we increase the resources in a system, it results in increased performance in a manner proportional to resources added.
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Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.
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I said we're going to leave phones, and so we did. We sold it to Sony.
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A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the 'I' in loving; Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.
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Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.
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A Central Bank official said that Q-coin did not affect the renminbi; it adds vibrancy to the economy.
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I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.
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I have never said that people 'should' engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.
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We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
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One bipartisan policy tradition is to deny Americans the use of our own resources.
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The fact to the matter is, we never developed a comprehensive strategy to deal with radical Islam. And the 9/11 commission said one of the things we must do is develop a global alliance to combat it.
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In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
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Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well.
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The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
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Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.
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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.
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At least two or three of the leagues in Europe over the last few months have said to us, 'We hope you go to the Olympics,' and I looked at them, and I said, 'Why?' and they go, 'Because if you don't send NHL players, we have to send our players, and that's way too disruptive to our season.'
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I said 'no' to the 'Born Survivor' producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man.
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I do not believe wealthy candidates should spend vast resources in their own campaigns.
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Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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News - communicating news and ideas, I guess - is my passion. And giving people alternatives so that they have two papers to read (and) alternative television channels.
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Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.
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I am done with the cliched heroine roles. I can't go to work without a challenge. I want to do films that drive me, films in which I am a part of the main plot.
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Overdressing is the first cousin of trying too hard.
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A service is said to be scalable if when we increase the resources in a system, it results in increased performance in a manner proportional to resources added.
