Clifford Stoll Quotes

When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube.

Clifford Stoll

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AloneStaringRoomKeyboardOnline

When people look and decide they have nothing in common with me - I'm 43, balding, blond, whatever - there's something absolutely invigorating about winning them over. Even if it's eight people from Sweden who don't understand what I'm talking about.

Jim Gaffigan

PeopleMeWinningTalkingLookOver

Ralph Lauren is wonderful.

Maye Musk

WonderfulLaurenRalphRalph Lauren

I've tried to say that I admire and respect Sen. Obama. He has accomplished great things, and he has motivated people, and so - and he loves his country, just as I do.

John McCain

RespectGreatPeopleGreat Things

But typically for a project like the Mac, the size we had was pretty good. And it has different stages. The team grows as you have to write manuals and do testing... though the Mac had no formal testing.

Andy Hertzfeld

GoodTeamYouWriteProjectSize

I don't believe that we should never not talk to people we don't agree with politically. If you can make that person laugh, it's the first step to getting him to listen to change their mind.

John Waters

ChangeStepPeopleMindBelieveYou

Every time I'm ever in L.A., if I have anytime off - which is rare - I'll go straight to the basketball court and play. That's a way for me to escape and get my mind off everything. I'm so competitive, so if I'm playing basketball, all I'm thinking about is winning.

Trevor Jackson

TimeMindMeBasketballWinningGo

The doctor didn't want me to play golf anymore and was worried about me fly-fishing. Golf is something I enjoy, but fly-fishing is a different thing: That's religion. Hunting is religion for me. I didn't want to give those up.

Tom Brokaw

ReligionMeDoctorGolfEnjoyPlay

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

Roland Barthes

ManStreetSkyscraperBlockOffers

It's weird that I've ended up playing so many real live people, because I was never any good at impersonations at school.

Michael Sheen

GoodLiveSchoolPeopleWeirdNever

Here's the deal on Texas. It's big. So big, there's about five distinct and different places here, separated from one another geologically, topographically, botanically, ethnically, culturally, and climatically.

Molly Ivins

TexasPlacesBigHereDifferent

The stage is that immediate rush of energy you get from the audience. Also, doing something in chronology - something that starts and finishes the same night. In television, you work toward the one scene, you shoot it, and then you have to forget about it because you have to worry about the next scene.

Juan Pablo Di Pace

WorkNightEnergyWorryDoingYou

I always think of the live show first, where the song is gonna go in the show. That's why they aren't sad songs. When I play, I want to make people happy, not sad. It's such a pleasure for me to do what I do, and I want other people to feel some form of that pleasure, too.

Jason Mraz

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