Eliyahu M. Goldratt Quotes
Whenever we think we have final answers progress, science, and better understanding ceases.
Quotes to Explore
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Now that our kids are getting older, they need their space. We dug out the basement so they will have a place to go crazy in the wintertime. My son is already talking about how he's going to make a skateboard ramp. It's just a mosh pit down there, so they can do whatever they want. We're not even going to finish it.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
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In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
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I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.
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I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
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It's interesting for me because in my work, a lot of times, I like to scrutinize the clothes and think what's going to make them look dated, and I do the same with vintage. In vintage, you want something unique and different, but at the same time, something that doesn't make you look like you dress like a grandpa.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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Books are humanity in print.
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I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering about who you are. I'm never quite sure and I'd hate to feel sort of content and get a good sense of who I am because if I know one thing, that's not me. I don't mind not necessarily being happy about it. And that's fine.
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Most Americans descend from the very people who built this country with their bare hands.
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Of course there are peace-loving Muslims.
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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
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If you look at the opening of 'Private Ryan,' you are so in the point of view of those guys and there is a whole world swirling all around them. You are learning that geography as they are learning it.
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Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made to counter repeatable attacks and learn from specifics. If someone narrowly escapes being eaten by a tiger in a certain cave, then he learns to avoid that cave.
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If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Some wonder whether some day we will arrive at a theory of everything and run out of new problems to solve - much as the effort to explore the earth ran out of new continents to explore.
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A lot of people have put their lives online and are using MySpace to manage their social lives.
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The types of collection in the book -– microphones and video cameras, TVs that watch us –- are nothing compared to what we have available today. We have sensors in our pockets that track us everywhere we go. Think about what this means for the privacy of the average person.
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Physics is not the most important thing. Love is.
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A nice frame doesn’t make a nice picture.
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Whenever we think we have final answers progress, science, and better understanding ceases.
