David Heinemeier Hansson Quotes
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What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
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The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.
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Every idea has its time.
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I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.
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I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.
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I love working in America, I love being part of the industry out here.
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I love proving people wrong.
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People have said to me, 'It must be nice to prove so many people wrong,' but I've never really cared about proving anything to anybody else.
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I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.
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Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.
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Todd and I have a very complementary working style .
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To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.
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I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
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It's about working when nobody's watching.
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Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.
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My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.
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So just remember that this is the first sign of trouble- if books are banned, that means that things are going wrong.
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We are working on some projects together that we hope will pass.
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I'm about what goes through people's minds. The stuff that people don't want to admit or face up to. The shows are about what's buried in people's psyches.
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There was a child went forth everyday, And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity or dread, that object he became, And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day... or for many years or stretching cycles of years.
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To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
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If you're not working on your best idea right now, you're doing it wrong.
