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Jon Evans Quotes

Traditional technical interviews are terrible for everyone. They're a bad way for companies to evaluate candidates. They're a bad way for candidates to evaluate companies. They waste time and generate stress on both sides.

Jon Evans

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: 1974

Topics

Time Stress Bad Way Waste Time

For 'The Gift of Stones,' I spent an afternoon chasing a flock of Canadian geese.

Jim Crace

Gift Stones Afternoon Chasing Flock

There is a wall that's built up that leads us to believe we can't move at work, but that's not the case. We need to find those pockets of time where we can take care of ourselves.

Jessie Pavelka

Work Time Believe Care Take Care Up

'Star Trek' seems to be an appeal to our better nature, the side of ourselves that works toward peace and cooperation and understanding and knowledge and yearns to seek out knowledge rather than the side that wants to divide and control one another.

John Cho

Nature Knowledge Peace Control Out

We had heard online that there were a number of pro athletes who were big fans of 'Pitch Perfect.' We came to learn that the primary fans were these Green Bay Packers.

Max Handelman

Green Learn Perfect Fans Big Online

Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, 'Oh, here we go.' In 'Without a Paddle' I'm the romantic lead - great! A comedy and that's what America wants. Then it did nothing for me and I went into kind-of a work abyss. I just didn't get another shot.

Matthew Lillard

Work Great Romantic Me Comedy Go

Although NFL teams have common interests such as promoting the NFL brand, they are still separate, profit-making entities, and their interests in licensing team trademarks are not necessarily aligned.

John Paul Stevens

Team Brand NFL Common Still Aligned

The problem is, women have stopped setting the bar high.

Steve Harvey

Women Problem Bar High Setting

I love entertaining people; I strive to make them feel good, and they make me feel wonderful. To explain it simply, I like what I do, and my ambition is to get better as I get older. That's really what I'm all about.

Tony Bennett

Love Good People Me Ambition Better

There's such cultural rot taking place, such a disintegration throughout our culture. Values, morality, you name it. Standards have been relaxed, and people are not being held to them. People's intentions, if they're said to be good and honorable, that's all that matters.

Rush Limbaugh

Good Culture People Name You Values

I read Tolkien when I was 11. I read 'The Hobbit' and the trilogy on a road trip with my family. I identified with the nonhumans in those books, and it never occurred to me why that was.

Diana Gabaldon

Family Me Road Why Never Trip

I can't turn hip-hop off, just like I can't turn comic books off. It blends into everything for me.

Cheo Hodari Coker

Me Hip-Hop Everything Turn Off Just

At Coinbase, our mission is to create an open financial system for the world. We believe that open protocols for money will create more innovation, economic freedom, and equality of opportunity in the world, just like the Internet did for publishing information.

Brian Armstrong

Opportunity Innovation Freedom Money