Quote by Paul Graham
If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 perc

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student. – Paul Graham

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Its hard to say exactly what it is about face-to-face contact that makes deals happen, but whatever it is, it hasnt yet been duplicated by technology. – Paul Graham

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Technology
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Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design – designing too early what a program should do. – Paul Graham

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design
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When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early 90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didnt want to, because they had no pilots. – Robert M. Gates

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It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with ones own. – Henry Adams

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I also believe that it is time to begin the fundamental analysis of how we got here, what led us here and what we need to do in order to ensure that we are equipped with the best possible intelligence as we face these issues in the future. – David Kay

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Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be and indeed are epigrams of high intelligence, but are not noticeably patient. – Charles Williams

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The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art. – John Lasseter

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My goals over the decade include to develop new drugs to treat intractable diseases by using iPS cell technology and to conduct clinical trials using it on a few patients with Parkinsons diseases, diabetes or blood diseases. – Shinya Yamanaka

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But look, you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going on. It is the counsels job to stop them, and instead the coverup was created. – Fred F. Fielding

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Now the whole dizzying and delirious range of sexual possibilities has been boiled down to that one big, boring, bulimic word. RELATIONSHIP. – Julie Burchill