Ted Nelson Quotes
How is MS-DOS like MSG? Both raise your blood pressure and give you a tightening sensation around your forehead.
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My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
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By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes for financial news.
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How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.
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A winning player is nothing more than a player on a winning team. A losing player is a guy who played on a losing team that year.
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
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I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything's very good between us now, but it was a long haul.
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A society committed to the search for truth must give protection to, and set a high value upon, the independent and original mind, however angular, however rasping, however socially unpleasant it may be; for it is upon such minds, in large measure, that the effective search for truth depends.
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
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Hard work certainly goes a long way. These days a lot of people work hard, so you have to make sure you work even harder and really dedicate yourself to what you are doing and setting out to achieve.
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How is MS-DOS like MSG? Both raise your blood pressure and give you a tightening sensation around your forehead.
