Nathan Myhrvold Quotes

The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.

Nathan Myhrvold

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If you can't find the next McDonald's, I'll find the next McDonald's. But it's vital to be with people who with looking for 'em, because they do exist. They are created.

Jim Cramer

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The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire.

John Legend

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There's always been a quality to being a science-fiction reader. Usually, you're the only one in your class, or there are only one or two in your whole town. You're always the guy who reads that strange stuff.

Robert J. Sawyer

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I'd take garbage, and I'd glue them together and create inventions.

Ann Makosinski

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It wasn't a decision to become a writer. I wanted to become a writer of crime fiction. I was very specific.

Michael Connelly

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We'll have a sales leader go run engineering. A lawyer go run business development. A business development leader go run our consumer operations. We're going to train a generalist group of leaders who know how to learn and operate in collaboration teamwork. I think that's the future of leadership.

John T. Chambers

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Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

Stendhal

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I'm human. But overall, whenever I see anyone being made fun of or given a hard time, I rush to their defense. I want to help them because I know how it feels.

Stephanie Klein

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When you live with the Devil you learn there's a God very quickly.

Sinead O'Connor

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In France, they call the people who come to the theatre 'les spectateurs'; in Britain and Ireland, they are the audience, the people who listen. This does not mean the French are not interested in language. On the contrary. It actually says more about the undeveloped visual sense over here.

Simon McBurney

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What I've been saying to people is, you need to think about mobile as your new flagship. It's the place everybody goes to first.

Mindy Grossman

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I've never been given a ticket by a police man.

Lisa Vanderpump

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