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.
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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.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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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.
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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.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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I still have a young attitude.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don't understand how it's going to evolve.
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World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
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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.
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There is Twitter outrage at everything. Be it a pair of trousers or a short skirt, somebody, somewhere, will not like it.
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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?
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The Second Amendment was passed in an era when organized police forces were few and citizen militias were useful in maintaining the peace.
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A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it's going to work. You can't always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you're needed most.
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We are numb in our new electric world as the native involved in our literate and mechanical culture. (p. 16)
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I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
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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.
