Kevin Young Quotes

We've learned quickly that the Web is far more pseudonymous than anonymous: online, our names have simply been changed to a number, an I.P. address, protocol, and code.

Kevin Young

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession:
  • Nationality:

Topics

MoreNamesWebBeenFarChanged

My father owned pit bulls when I was young. He sometimes fought them. My brother and a lot of the men in my community owned pit bulls as well: sometimes they fought them for honor, never for money.

Jesmyn Ward

FatherCommunityMoneyMenBrother

You look much better when you're comfy.

Melissa McCarthy

BetterYouLookMuch

The charity that I work for is the Johnson Cancer Research Foundation at UCLA. I also do work with Stand Up To Cancer.

Maura Tierney

WorkResearchStand UpFoundationUp

I didn't tell my kids, 'You have to play viola, and you have to play piano.' They chose these things on their own, and I don't think we have to give kids every choice, but we do have to give them some choice because that autonomy is crucial for fostering passion.

Angela Duckworth

PassionThinkYouChoicePlayTell

The older I get, the more I don't care what people think or what people say. I just do what moves me.

Tommy Lee

PeopleMeThinkCareSayMore

We range widely, we readers of fiction, but I think we all need a home. Mine is science fiction. It's my home shelf, my homeland, my home planet, my essential genre.

Robin Sloan

HomeScienceThinkScience Fiction

Skimming has led, I believe, to a tendency to go to the sources that seem the simplest, most reduced, most familiar, and least cognitively challenging. I think that leads people to accept truly false news without examining it, without being analytical.

Maryanne Wolf

PeopleBelieveThinkNewsGoAccept

In high school, I started my first company, called M Cubed Software. We named it that because it was me and two other guys named Mike.

Mike McCue

SchoolMeHigh SchoolSoftwareHigh

Once I'd reached the point where I could squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory palaces, I still only sporadically used the techniques to memorize the phone numbers of people I actually wanted to call. I found it was just too simple to punch them into my cell phone.

Joshua Foer

SimpleMemoryPeopleCell PhoneMore

I want to negotiate what I'm worth. I want to put my analytics forward, man-to-man, and to be like, 'This is what I'm owed now. Pay me.' And then we can talk.

Conor McGregor

MeForwardWorthNowWantTalk

It's depicted in comics as, like, this gung-ho, 'Let's die in battle, in glory' idea, because that's just the genre we're in. But that's not what war really is.

Brian Azzarello

WarBattleDieGloryBecauseJust

War is too strange to process alone.

Phil Klay

AloneWarProcessStrangeToo

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Kevin Young