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.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Business
  • Strong
  • Relationship

• 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.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • American
  • Die

• As an entrepreneur, you tend to see the opportunities where others see none.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • You
  • See
  • Opportunities

• I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Real
  • Love
  • Connection

• People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Emotional
  • Logical

• The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Up
  • God
  • Eye

• 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.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Sun
  • Red
  • Lucky

• Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • May
  • Purpose

• One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Children
  • Family
  • Experience

• 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.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Life
  • Work
  • Women

• To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Long
  • Children
  • Young

• The military executes policy decisions.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Military
  • Decisions
  • Policy

• It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Like
  • China
  • Egg

• If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Sleep

• 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.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Fight
  • Girls

• The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • America
  • Problem
  • Christian

• 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.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Socialism

• I think the premise of somebody trying to recreate a night from their teenage years stuck with me as something potentially very tragically comic.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Trying
  • Night
  • Me

• The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise.

  

  Wayne Thiebaud
  • Gold
  • Place
  • Express

• I like Chanel mascara because it has the darkest black. For my eyebrows, I brush them through to keep them groomed and in place. And for my lips, I wear lip balm. I use Kiehl's Lip Balm #1. It's really helpful during fashion week. If I keep up with these three things, I feel like I look very fresh, young, and natural.

  

  Fei Fei Sun
  • Up
  • Black
  • Fashion

• I think it's probably true that creative people are touched by melancholy more than the average person, and to the extent that delving into that shadow world produces good work, I'm all for it. But I think you have to be able to step back from the work, and say, "Look how miserable I felt. Look how beautifully I wrote about it. Now I'm going to get an iced coffee and chat with a friend." Writing should be a way out of despair.

  

  David Starkey
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I tell 'Hansel and Gretel' stories about heroic children who are lost in a world that seems friendly at first, and then isn't.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • World
  • Children
  • Lost

• Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.

  

  Tammy Wynette
  • Love
  • Man
  • Giving

• 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.

  

  Dan Bricklin
  • Creative
  • Week