Brian Christian Quotes
When then senator Obama visited Google in 2007, CEO Eric Schmidt jokingly began the Q&A like a job interview, asking him, “What’s the best way to sort a million thirty-two-bit integers?” Without missing a beat, Obama cracked a wry smile and replied, “I think the Bubble Sort would be the wrong way to go.” The crowd of Google engineers erupted in cheers. “He had me at Bubble Sort,” one later recalled.
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I never thought I'd live this long. It sounds funny because I still think of myself as a kid.
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The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.
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We have heard time and time again in the course of our work how talking can help heal the hidden challenges we can't deal with alone.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.
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We will fuck him. Do you hear me? We will fuck him. We will ruin him. Like no one has ever fucked him!
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If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.
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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.
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While all the pomp and circumstance of war animated others, it only saddened me; and all of past reflection, all of future dread, made the whole grandeur of the martial scene, and all the delusive seduction of martial music, fill my eyes frequently with tears.
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I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.
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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.
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I would say the biggest challenge I had as a woman in science is be a mom. It's really hard. It's very hard work having children, and I tell kids this all the time.
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Most of our decisions are driven by either love or fear. Figure out who's doing the talking, then decide what you'll do.
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Proverbs contradict each other. That is the wisdom of a nation.
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Gypsy dance is never just to be dancing. Instead it seems to be a part of an immense and significant non-verbal vocabulary of Gypsy communication and behavior. It is at the heart of an essential transformation, a transcended state, an escape from the realities of their daily lives to a more satisfying state of mind.
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I've always wanted to work with Paul Newman. I had a couple opportunities in the past, and I didn't take advantage of it, so it was really fun to be working with him.
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Of course my parents are picky about the girls I date; my parents watch out for me.
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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
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I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.
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There's something luxurious about having a girl light your cigarette. In fact, I got married once on account of that.
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When then senator Obama visited Google in 2007, CEO Eric Schmidt jokingly began the Q&A like a job interview, asking him, “What’s the best way to sort a million thirty-two-bit integers?” Without missing a beat, Obama cracked a wry smile and replied, “I think the Bubble Sort would be the wrong way to go.” The crowd of Google engineers erupted in cheers. “He had me at Bubble Sort,” one later recalled.
