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John Collison Quotes

Stripe really did come about because we were really appalled by how hard it was to charge for things online.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: irish
Birth: 1990

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Hard Things Because Charge Come How

When I started writing 'Batman,' I lobbied heavily to get rid of Robin - or at least not use him in the stories I wrote. Fighting crime with a teenager dressed in primary colors while you're sporting a gray-and-black outfit always struck me as child endangerment, if not abuse.

Child Me Colors Writing Fighting

There is a moral underpinning to economics. And the kinds of questions that it asks and the kinds of solutions it proposes do seem to me to belong in a more humanistic framework.

John Lanchester

Me Economics Questions Moral More

Being from Serbia makes us tough and eager to prove that we can come from this country that has been through so much and still be successful.

Tough Country Prove Successful Us

What would the infrastructure of the Internet look like if mass surveillance wasn't its business model?

Business Internet Look Surveillance

I think that everyone who took part has always been grateful for it.

Robert Fitzgerald

Grateful Think Always Everyone Been

I am one of 40 grandchildren. What bothers me about the whole trust-fund thing is that it sort of presumes that everything is handed to you. And if there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking.

Family I Am Me Grandchildren You

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

Michel de Montaigne

Life My Life Never Terrible Been

I've known my wife since we were 13 years old in eighth grade, and we kinda dated each other's best friends. The four of us always hung out, but I really wanted her. We dated around 17, but I was no way mature enough for her.

Best Wife Friends Enough Mature Way

When you're onstage and you know you're bombing, that's very, very scary. Because you know you gotta keep going - you're bombing, but you can't stop. And you know that half an hour from now, you're still gonna be bombing. It takes a thick skin.

Christopher Walken

Keep Going You Stop Skin Know Now

I like to visit my horse, have a walk with my dog.

Dog Walk Horse Like Visit

God is a being who is himself the cause of his own existence. His prerogative is to perceive before there was anything to be perceived. He is the creator of the universe; He operated upon nothing and turned it into something.

God Universe Nothing Existence Own

Being misunderstood - that's the thing that scares me. Because my life is about oversharing.

Life Me My Life Misunderstood Being

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