Craig Federighi Quotes
People sometimes have a view of programming that is something solitary and very technical. But programming is among the most creative, expressive, and social careers.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.
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I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.
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The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
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I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.
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I think having children is the most amazing thing.
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A girl's best friend is her pride.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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From the beginning of my time as Secretary-General, I have sought to advance a practical, action-oriented vision of the U.N. as the voice of the voiceless and the defender of the defenceless.
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Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.
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The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
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Too few people understand a really good sandwich.
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I don't really listen to Radiohead. I listened to the albums and they just didn't move me in the way, say, John Prine does. His is just extraordinarily eloquent music.
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I hear so many writers say - and these are writers that I trust completely - 'I just started hearing a voice', or, 'The characters came to life'. I am filled with loathing for my own characters when I hear that because they do nothing of the sort. Left to their own devices, they do nothing but drink coffee and complain about their lives.
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People sometimes have a view of programming that is something solitary and very technical. But programming is among the most creative, expressive, and social careers.
