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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How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
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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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You couldn’t begin to imagine who I am, where I’m going, or what I’m about to do, All of you are trapped here. You can’t go anywhere, forward or back. But I’m not like you. I have work to do. I have a mission to accomplish. And so, with your permission, I shall move ahead.
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We want to feel hyper-alive, and it's like, the more cartoonish and grotesque the level we can operate at, the better. It's like the world we live in has become quite safe in a lot of ways, and it has become harder to genuinely transgress. But the desire to transgress is a real feeling.
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Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture.
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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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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.
