Neal Stephenson Quotes
Any strategy that involves crossing a valley-accepting short-term losses to reach a higher hill in the distance-will soon be brought to a halt by the demands of a system that celebrates short-term gains and tolerates stagnation, but condemns anything else as failure. In short, a world where big stuff can never get done.Neal Stephenson
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
Sam Altman -
The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined.
Gail Collins -
The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.
Yoko Ono -
I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
Yann Tiersen -
I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
Barbra Streisand
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
Dana Boente -
I still have a young attitude.
Pat Morita -
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
Tammy Faye Bakker -
And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
Hans Kung -
Government bonds have basically been sold in the domestic market, so there is some sense of stability, but the amount of public debt is really severe... Japan must manage its finances with a sense of urgency.
Yoshihiko Noda
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There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.
Gavin Hood -
People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don't understand how it's going to evolve.
Sam Altman -
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
Barry Commoner -
Lee Ann Womack is from near where I grew up in East Texas, so I've always looked up to her. I sang a lot of Dolly Parton as a kid and a lot of traditional western swing, like Patsy Cline and Roy Rogers.
Kacey Musgraves -
Why doesn't anyone remember that the Palestinians already had four real opportunities to establish their state, yet each time they preferred to revert to terrorism?
Yair Lapid -
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
Samuel Johnson
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I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'
Zac Efron -
When you're 16 and when you're 17, you're kind of walking that fine line of being an adult and legally being able to look out for yourself, while being able to look out for yourself and being treated as a child.
Katherine Langford -
I am thankful I was born in America, although if I gain any more weight the burqa thing may start to seem like a good idea to me. See? Another plus about America, you can always find some food.
Elayne Boosler -
Dartmouth represented a great opportunity. I wanted to go to the best possible school I could go to.
Aisha Tyler -
Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
Helen Keller -
Any strategy that involves crossing a valley-accepting short-term losses to reach a higher hill in the distance-will soon be brought to a halt by the demands of a system that celebrates short-term gains and tolerates stagnation, but condemns anything else as failure. In short, a world where big stuff can never get done.
Neal Stephenson