David Parnas Quotes
Many spend their time berating practitioners for not applying their method. We all need to disseminate our ideas, but most of our time should be spent applying and improving our methods, not selling them. The best way to sell a mouse trap is to display some trapped mice.
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I think a woman should be wholesome, voluptuous and sizzling!
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No one should be left to suffer alone.
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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.
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I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.
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MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.
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In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.
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I'm named after a computer and grew up really interested in them.
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Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.
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We should have more invention.
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The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
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Hedge fund managers charge so much more than mutual fund managers; alpha is even harder to come by. They end up selling a variety of things beyond mere outperformance.
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English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.
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They should rule who are able to rule best.
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You should constantly write because your writing is always evolving and progressing. It's really important to start writing young.
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I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the Internet, then I will be.
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Even today no computer can understand language as well as a three-year-old or see as well as a mouse.
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There is no special way a photograph should look.
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North Korea faded to black in the early 1990s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, which had propped up its old Communist ally with cheap fuel oil, North Korea's creakily inefficient economy collapsed. Power stations rusted into ruin.
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I think it's smart to always keep an eye on the companies that sit within incubator communities, which bring together the skills and expertise needed to grow an enterprise.
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I found being able to change things on the fly and react to the changes in the artwork makes it stronger. And I feel like I'm not doing the job twice.
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Anything with a good story and characters I think would be great.
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Many spend their time berating practitioners for not applying their method. We all need to disseminate our ideas, but most of our time should be spent applying and improving our methods, not selling them. The best way to sell a mouse trap is to display some trapped mice.
