David Heinemeier Hansson Quotes
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The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.
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The Florida peninsula is, in fact, an emerging plateau, honeycombed with voids and vents, caves and underground waterways. Travelers on Interstate Highway I-75 have no idea that, beneath them, are cave labyrinths still being mapped by speleologists - 'cavers,' they prefer to be called.
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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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I'm still not used to the idea of being the youngest circumnavigator.
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I'll get in the face of anyone I think is wrong.
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I don't know what would I do in future; I'll decide it later.
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I'm in awe of any Olympic champion, for sure.
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When I wrote my stories in elementary school, I signed them all 'Karen E. Bender' with the squiggly 'E.' I wanted, from an early age, to be a writer, and that name - that E - was a way of pretending I knew how to do it.
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I do not know a lot about football. I guess I'm a Patriots fan because I'm from Boston? But I'm getting to know a lot more about it, and I'm finding it fascinating.
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If you're not working on your best idea right now, you're doing it wrong.
