Jenna Wortham Quotes

People in tech love to see their work as embodying the 'hacker ethos': a desire to break systems down in order to change them. But this pride can often be conveyed rather clumsily.

Jenna Wortham

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WorkLoveChangePeoplePrideDown

Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day.

Joe Baca

DayIndependenceYearMexicoEvery

What advice do I tell my grandson? I listen to him.

Roy Haynes

AdviceListenHimTellGrandson

The wisest man may be a blind father.

Jules Verne

FatherManBlindMayWisest

There's a lot of other movies I like, but I don't even pay attention to directors to tell you the truth.

Jason Mewes

TruthAttentionYouMoviesPayTell

I've always wanted to be a dad. I just can't wait to have a little rug rat running around. I used to want five or six kids, but maybe I've become too self-absorbed over the years. I think two would be perfect.

Josh Duhamel

WaitThinkPerfectWantBecomeRat

Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

WordsLongContractThingsAwayOwe

I grew up in New York, and I've always been surrounded by fashion. My grandmother used to write for 'Vogue' in the '50s, and my mother was a dancer and a model.

Dean Winters

MotherNew YorkFashionNewWrite

Everyone in the book's ecology, starting with the author and including the publisher, the distributor, the booksellers, the libraries, and ending up with the reader, should benefit from a healthy book trade.

Philip Pullman

BookEndingHealthyStartingUp

I'm a little bit of a makeout king. I don't discriminate too much.

Pete Wentz

KingToo MuchLittleMuchLittle Bit

When I write, I imagine scenes. I write things down. I take photographs. I do some casting. I rewrite. It's a permanent making or remaking.

Pawel Pawlikowski

DownWritePermanentThingsTake

I'm one of the few people in Hollywood who actually had a good childhood.

Seth MacFarlane

GoodChildhoodPeopleHollywoodWho

To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.

Rex Stout

JoyRareFinesseDetectiveDaring

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