Irwin M. Jacobs Quotes
When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
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Ever since childhood, when I found out that the ultimate fate for all humans was death, sheer terror and morbid curiosity had been fighting for supremacy in my mind.
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I am inspired by life, past experiences, what's to come, women around me, art, colors, paintings, and emotions.
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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Trying to think about the rest of the team over myself or my scoring is something that I never really had to do before.
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My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
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The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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One of the main characteristics that differentiates Dubai from other commercial centres is its openness to innovation and the freedoms it grants people and institutions to operate.
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I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly.
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I've found that the most engaging and satisfying author events I've done are with other people, where the conversation is spontaneous. I think that is by far the better way to introduce and promote a book.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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I went to Japan and I lived there. I lived in Mexico for a year. I went to Europe. I lived in Canada.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes.
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To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally.
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If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void.
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Everyone who has any talent at all in sketching, painting, sculpturing or carving, should have the opportunity to use that talent. The expression is important for the person, and can tremendously enrich the lives of other people. What can you do?
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When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
