Brian Christian Quotes
Look-Then-Leap Rule: You set a predetermined amount of time for “looking”—that is, exploring your options, gathering data—in which you categorically don’t choose anyone, no matter how impressive. After that point, you enter the “leap” phase, prepared to instantly commit to anyone who outshines the best applicant you saw in the look phase.Brian Christian
Quotes to Explore
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi -
Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
Hanna Rosin -
I don't want to be held down by genres so much.
Randy Jackson Breakfast Club -
You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy.
Irene Dunne -
To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.
Edie Campbell -
I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places.
Garrison Keillor
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
Natalie Dormer -
I used to spend my holidays there in my grandparents' large family house, with my numerous cousins. When I die, I am going to be buried in the village cemetery.
Yves Chauvin -
I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.
Alan Ball -
Man, I grew up like everybody else. Middle-low income family. My parents got divorced like most of the rest of the country.
Miguel -
I was nearly 40 when I started. I had no fear that I wasn't going to write. I knew it was just delayed. Then, my goodness, I never stopped.
Jane Gardam -
The fundamental deception of Satan is the lie that obedience can never bring happiness.
R. C. Sproul
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Nothing is forgotten in the processes of idealization. Reveries of idealization develop, not by letting oneself be taken in by memories, but by constantly dreaming the values of a being whom one would love. And that is the way a great dreamer dreams his double. His magnified double sustains him.
Gaston Bachelard -
Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.
Oscar Wilde -
The world is a better place with Saddam in prison not in power.
Tony Blair -
The console games, as they come out with this new generation, will have a temporary advantage in price performance, but there are still many things you can do on a PC, more conveniently than you can do on a console machine.
Will Wright -
I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options.
Ted Sarandos -
Look-Then-Leap Rule: You set a predetermined amount of time for “looking”—that is, exploring your options, gathering data—in which you categorically don’t choose anyone, no matter how impressive. After that point, you enter the “leap” phase, prepared to instantly commit to anyone who outshines the best applicant you saw in the look phase.
Brian Christian