Edwin Catmull Quotes
At the U of U, we were inventing a new language. One of us would contribute a verb, another a noun, then a third person would figure out ways to string the elements together to actually say something.

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To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.
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While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving beyond them. At some point the traditional church and all of the expressions of that church will become essentially irrelevant.
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
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It's been so amazing. I've always struggled with this barrier that I felt like I'd had up until blogging came along. Just one comment from somebody really sparks something in me. It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore. I really thrive on that.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.
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The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.
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Jackie Chan is a myth.
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I don't want to do only blockbusters.
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Individuals can stand up against genocide in Darfur and Iran's quest for nuclear weapons.
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Really it was the first time in my life that I recognised that acting is, I'm just going to say it, I am an artist, I have to do this, I have to do this.
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Putting people before profits is how we've tried to operate from the beginning.
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If there is one thing that I take pride in, it is the fact that I never, ever make a charge without offering a substantial amount of support for it. You may ultimately end up not agreeing with me, but you will have to concede that I offered much evidence in support of my position, something that people frequently do not do.
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It's really hard to compete with Apple on pure coolness, and if you do, you're probably going to use some of the things they pioneered.
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We have international standards regulating everything from t-shirts to toys to tomatoes. There are international regulations for furniture. That means there are common standards for the global trade in armchairs but not the global trade in arms.
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To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.
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I'm sometimes mistaken as the wife of the chairman. I just laugh it off.
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Von Neumann languages do not have useful properties for reasoning about programs. Axiomatic and denotational semantics are precise tools for describing and understanding conventional programs, but they only talk about them and cannot alter their ungainly properties. Unlike von Neumann languages, the language of ordinary algebra is suitable both for stating its laws and for transforming an equation into its solution, all within the "language."
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Every problem has a limited life span.
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At the U of U, we were inventing a new language. One of us would contribute a verb, another a noun, then a third person would figure out ways to string the elements together to actually say something.