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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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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The security of the United States, which is so dependent on having accurate and timely intelligence, is not a Republican or a Democratic issue. – Saxby Chambliss

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George W. Bush attended the intelligence briefing every day. Obama has not even attended half of them. He sends surrogates. That to me is significant. – Rush Limbaugh

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Intelligence

A lot of the things that weve been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence. – Jane Harman

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Intelligence

It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits. – Lewis Thomas

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A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner. – Thomas Carlyle

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Where knowledge ends, religion begins. – Benjamin Disraeli

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