Werner Vogels Quotes

If you’re concerned about scalability, any algorithm that forces you to run agreement will eventually become your bottleneck. Take that as a given.

Werner Vogels

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• I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.

  

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• I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.

  

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• For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

  

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• All I wanted to do was be a working actor.

  

  Teddy Sears
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• Everyone has something that they desperately need that makes them feel good, that they don't want anything to get in the way of. Whether it's a man's golf game, whether it's a woman's cooking. I have a friend who has to clean. She's addicted to cleaning.

  

  Tasha Smith
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• Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Always
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  • Hypocrisy

• A house is kind of scary.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • House
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• I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
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• I've been doing pranks my whole life, so I guess I'm pretty good at it.

  

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• Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Hardest
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• I wanted to do an episode about Chuck having a gambling problem. I wanted to portray my addiction on the show. But I think it's a little edgy for Saturday night.

  

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• I love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting around than on the bigger films.

  

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  • Waiting
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• I don't know how to play evil.

  

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  • Know
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• I've always played characters that were younger than myself.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Myself
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• All liaisons between homosexuals are conducted as though they were between a chorus girl and a bishop. In some cases both parties think they are bishops.

  

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• I'm the type of guy that likes to lead by example.

  

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• Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication.

  

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  • Good
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• The Joker is a psychopathic, mass-murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy. Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night. I couldn't stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going.

  

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  • Joker
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• I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.

  

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  • Up
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• An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.

  

  David Attenborough
  • World
  • Great
  • Understanding

• If you’re concerned about scalability, any algorithm that forces you to run agreement will eventually become your bottleneck. Take that as a given.

  

  Werner Vogels
  • Running
  • Force
  • Concerned