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.Neal Stephenson
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Warren Weaver -
The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
Sam Altman -
I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
Zach LaVine -
What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
D. B. Sweeney -
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.
Rachel Nichols -
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.
Natasha Calis
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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.
Wangari Maathai -
There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
M. Night Shyamalan -
It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.
Patrick Collison -
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.
A. S. Byatt -
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Quentin Crisp -
Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
Karl Kraus
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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.
Orison Swett Marden -
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.
Walter O'Brien -
The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
Barry Eisler -
I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
Every song I write is autobiographical and is about people, and that's one of the things that gets complicated. You have to decide where's your place as a songwriter.
Halsey -
I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.
Malaika Arora Khan
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Through the consolidation of basic production and the institution of a new High Authority, whose decisions will bind France, Germany and the other countries that join, this proposal represents the first concrete step towards a European federation, imperative for the preservation of peace.
Jean Monnet -
If I give dollars to some charity, nobody cares. I mean, it helps the charity, but nobody cares. But if the Dodgers do the same thing, they bring more focus to issues, and that makes it better.
Mark Walter -
I was attached to the SAS from time to time, but we are forbidden - former, present, or future - to discuss any specific operations.
Christopher Lee -
I like to think of myself as kind of a sculptor, only I sculpt people.
Kathleen Quinlan -
This whole world is mind's world, the product of the mind.
Chogyam Trungpa -
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.
Neal Stephenson