Dan Bricklin Quotes
VisiCalc took 20 hours of work per week for some people and turned it out in 15 minutes and let them become much more creative.
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The U.S. economy and workers benefit from a strong, healthy relationship between government and business.
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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As an entrepreneur, you tend to see the opportunities where others see none.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.
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I'm lucky because I don't like being in the sun a whole lot, just because the repercussions for me - I feel it, I go very red.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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I'm aware that beyond my own need to find a personal balance, I should be sending a signal to society as women's minister about the importance of work-life balance.
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To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.
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The military executes policy decisions.
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If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.
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There's a lot of girls out there that can relate to me. They can look at me and see themselves a little bit. There's a lot of girls out there that have a tougher side to them. I just think that people are really grown and attracted to that, and that's why people like to see me fight.
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To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed.
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I think the premise of somebody trying to recreate a night from their teenage years stuck with me as something potentially very tragically comic.
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Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.
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The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.
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I want to be able to sing well, but I have the worst voice in the world.
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It was in the '80s, so I guess big hair and high bangs. And I had so many gummy bracelets! While we were doing 'Full House,' we were like, 'You know, in 10 years, we're going to look back on this and think this is horrible.' But everyone looked like that!
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I terribly miss - we all miss, I think - somebody like the great producer Irving Thalberg. He had a foot in both camps: He understood us creative people. And he understood the money people.
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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To be honest, I've never been interested in how many games I've done and seen. It doesn't mean anything to anybody. All I know is I'm eternally grateful for having been allowed to work so many games.
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As I understand the American Founders, the most brilliant and daring idea they had was that it's possible to create a free society that could stay free forever.
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VisiCalc took 20 hours of work per week for some people and turned it out in 15 minutes and let them become much more creative.
