Zal Batmanglij famous quotes

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  • It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?

  • The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.

  • It's fun to be creative and innovative and come up with something crazy. So I need people to work with who are not going to be afraid to take it to the left a bit.

  • Because I’ve had a taste and I’m not sharing. This isn’t just for fun. I may be slightly addicted.

  • I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

  • In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.

  • My car's my best friend. My office. My home. My location. I have a very intimate sense when I am in a car with someone next to me. We're in the most comfortable seats because we're not facing each other, but sitting side by side. We don't look at each other, but instead do so only when we want to. We're allowed to look around without appearing rude. We have a big screen in front of us and side views. Silence doesn't seem heavy or difficult. Nobody serves anybody. And many other aspects. One most important thing is that it transports us from one place to another.

  • My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.

  • If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.

  • As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.