Dave Cutler Quotes
In the summer of 1988, I received an interesting call from Bill Gates at Microsoft. He asked whether I'd like to come over and talk about building a new operating system at Microsoft for personal computers. What Bill had to offer was the opportunity to build another operating system, one that was portable.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
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In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.
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Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.
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Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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'The Art Student's War' is, at its core, a traditional American wartime love story. As such, it is timely and engrossing. By the end, all its principal characters 'have been to Hell and back.'
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I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.
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In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.
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The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.
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I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.
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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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I can assure you we are a responsible nuclear power.
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No crime lab in the world looks like the 'CSI' ones because there's simply not the money for all those fancy machines.
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He said nothing: seldom do those who are silent make mistakes.
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In a healthy economy, empowering, sustaining and efficiency innovations operate in balance. A healthy economy creates and sustains more jobs before squeezing out inefficiencies.
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Malevitch discovered abstraction as an experimental principle that can propel creative work to previously unheard levels of invention; this abstract work allowed much greater levels of creativity.
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From a boy I gloated on existence. Earth to me Seemed all-sufficient and my sojourn there One trembling opportunity for joy.
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I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection.
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You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them.
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In the summer of 1988, I received an interesting call from Bill Gates at Microsoft. He asked whether I'd like to come over and talk about building a new operating system at Microsoft for personal computers. What Bill had to offer was the opportunity to build another operating system, one that was portable.
