Neal Stephenson Quotes
There was a common saying in the biz/tech world that 'A's hire A's, and B's hire C's,' the point being that as long as you continued to recruit only the very best people, they would attract others, but as soon as you let your standards slip, the second-raters would begin to sign up third-raters to act as their minions and advance their agendas.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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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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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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Honesty is something you can't wear out.
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I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.
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When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.
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This is a budget that does not protect the vulnerable, it doesn't protect the jobs of today and it doesn't create the jobs that we need for tomorrow.
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I came here because the city has a tradition and is a very respected food city.
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My family were very poor. I am one of nine siblings: two girls and seven boys. Only my brother and I play in Europe, and then three more work in Europe, and another plays in Tunisia. This family is a footballing family, but our lives have not always been good.
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... some of my people could have been left [in Africa] and are living there. And I can't understand them and they don't know me and I don't know them because all we had was taken away from us. And I became kind of angry; I felt the anger of why this had to happen to us. We were so stripped and robbed of our background, we wind up with nothing.
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There was a common saying in the biz/tech world that 'A's hire A's, and B's hire C's,' the point being that as long as you continued to recruit only the very best people, they would attract others, but as soon as you let your standards slip, the second-raters would begin to sign up third-raters to act as their minions and advance their agendas.
