Ron Conway Quotes

I started sfCiti because I believed that technology companies needed to take a 'One City' approach and build a shared sense of community and civic responsibility in San Francisco.

Ron Conway

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TechnologyCommunityResponsibility

When your child stops breathing 60 times a night, you don't worry about what's going on next year or even next week. You put aside thoughts about which preschool you're going to enroll him in and focus on how he's doing right now. It's not the Norman Rockwell relationship that you sign on for when becoming a parent.

John C. McGinley

RelationshipFocusChildThoughts

I think it's absolutely absurd that we're playing on turf, and it's really a slap in the face to women's football by FIFA and just a show of disrespect.

Megan Rapinoe

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It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on.

Michael Behe

LifeScienceBestGoNaturalUs

The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.

John Tukey

ValuePictureNeverSeeGreatestUs

We noticed that the most popular videos at YouTube showed people making things.

Steve Chen

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I get called an adrenaline junkie every other minute, and I'm just fine with that.

Steve Irwin

MinuteGetFineAdrenalineJust

I don't think Warren Buffett should be the treasurer or whatever. Warren Buffett's nuts! Just because he's a freaking billionaire doesn't mean he has common sense.

Stephen Baldwin

ThinkCommon SenseJust BecauseMean

I believe that art can make relevant and progressive contributions to culture and society.

Trevor Paglen

ArtCultureSocietyBelieveRelevant

I came up with, 'I am a lost boy from Neverland, usually hanging out with Peter Pan' and recorded that simple line on my phone. I watched it back and thought it was kinda cheesy, and I was actually going to delete it. But I thought 'Whatever, it's catchy.'

Ruth B

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When I started music, I started out in Puerto Rico with classical music. But what really made me want to be a musician was jazz, and because I didn't grow up with jazz, I had to learn it from a very basic level. I had to go into the history and learn everything about the development of the music, all the players and all that stuff.

Miguel Zenon

MusicHistoryMeGrowLearnJazz

It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.

Mo Rocca

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Most men, no matter how well or badly dressed, carry overstuffed, beat up wallets that should have been replaced years ago. Why is that? Every time I see a guy take out a wallet anywhere, it looks like a piece of old melted chocolate cake-with strings.

Jonathan Carroll

TimeMenChocolateLooksDressed

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