David Grann Quotes

I guess if I had to pick one interest that is unique, it would be giant squids - I'm disturbingly fascinated by them and even wrote a story about the hunt for them.

David Grann

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StoryUniqueInterestWouldEven

One of the reasons microcomputers progressed so fast is people are willing to accept crashes. It's faster to build something and try it, even if it means you'll have to rebuild later... If you spent too much time building and massaging one vehicle, you don't learn anything.

John Carmack

TimePeopleBuildingLearnYouFast

You can't go wrong with pizza, unless it's terrible pizza.

Andy Kindler

PizzaYouWrongGoTerribleUnless

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Anita Brookner

LoveRomanticBeginningLove IsMay

I think that the best things that governments can do for productivity is not whack on new taxes and, if we can get institutions like schools and hospitals functioning better, well that's obviously good for the overall productiveness of our society.

Tony Abbott

GoodBestSocietyThinkBetterNew

Anything is possible if you're willing to work for it.

Rob Dyrdek

WorkYouPossibleAnythingWilling

Heartbreak comes in different sizes, and the departure of an 18-year-old child for a far college has to be treated as a very benign form of the disease.

Jonathan Raban

ChildCollegeHeartbreakFarDisease

Kids are curious, and if you don't lose that, then everything is an adventure.

Diane Greene

AdventureCuriousYouLoseKids

The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.

Chick Corea

SoundOrchestraMagnificentMost

I don't know anything about propaganda for Chinese reunification. I only know about charity and environmental work. I just want to do good.

Chen Guangbiao

WorkGoodEnvironmentalCharityKnow

I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise.

Arthur Henderson

WorldSurviveBelieveNationalism

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

Arne Jacobsen

ArchitectureAestheticPossibleTask

Technologists come at a problem from the point of view that the system is working a certain way, and if I engage in that system and actually change the rules of the system, I can make it work a different way.

Pierre Omidyar

WorkChangeViewProblemRulesWay

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