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Henry Petroski Quotes

Betting on the success of innovative technologies in the marketplace can carry all the uncertainty and risk that betting on the next card in the deck does at a blackjack table in Las Vegas. There is a factor of randomness that must be factored in, but precisely how to do so is anyone's guess.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: February 6, 1942

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Success Uncertainty Vegas Table Risk

It's a pretty good job being an actor, but it's work sometimes. And when I say work, I mean it's a job. You're going to a job.

Work Good Job You Sometimes Say

The history of Montana has been of the government giving land grants to people that could not possibly turn it into decent farms. And that's destroying their lives. So they don't see the government as something that's out there to help them.

History Government People Help Land

I want to make it clear: it's not that I hate mainstream cinema. It's perfectly fine. There are a lot of people who need to escape, because they are in very difficult situations, so they have the right to escape from the world. But this has nothing to do with an art form.

Art Hate People World Cinema Escape

I never outgrew my conversion to atheism at 13, but at various times was a serious cultural Jew.

Serious Never Atheism Conversion Jew

For a really relaxing time, you want to go to a place where the work ethic hasn't taken hold, where the culture hasn't been taken over by the western values of constant striving.

Work Time Culture Work Ethic You Go

I want to do everything. That's my problem.

Problem Want Everything

Looking back, I do think one of the reasons 'Thirteen Reasons Why' has been so successful is not because it deals with serious issues but because I had a unique and interesting way to tell that story. I knew the issues were going to be dealt with in the book, but I felt my job was to write the story as entertainingly as possible.

Job Looking Back Looking Book Think

I lived in London for eight years and I like to say that I am two parts American and one part British because I lived there for a third of my life.

Life I Am American My Life Say Two

To me, there are things you're good at and things you're not so good at. For some reason, I'm good at darker characters. It has to do with how you look.

Christopher Walken

Good Me You Look Reason Things

I think that ultimately - as I say to most of the people who are acquiring art - I can tell you my reality of a piece, but ultimately what's more important will be yours. I can tell you what a piece means to me, but just as valid if not more is what it means to you.

Art People Me Think Reality You

There are doctors who help people who have done bad things; there are lawyers who defend bad people. I don't think it's unique to my profession.

People Think Help Bad People Bad

There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives.

Know Everyday Dishonesty Existence

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