Carl Shapiro famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The body is given out on loan - don't waste it and expect to use it tomorrow.
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Sweetness and release can only taste the way they do after one deserves them.
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A dozen extra steps becomes a tremendous aggravation when you are pushing your edge out hour after hour.
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Positive feedback makes the strong grow stronger and the weak grow weaker.
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There is a central difference between the old and new economies: the old industrial economy was driven by economies of scale; the new information economy is driven by the economics of networks.
-- Carl Shapiro
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Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else.
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I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants
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I really hate it when I can’t score runs from a ball.
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I used to wanna rap like Jay-Z, Now I feel I could run laps around Jay-Z, Nas ain't seen nothing this nasty, B.I.G. & Pac got it coming when I pass too. You got the mic, I ain't the one you wanna pass to
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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
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The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is that we cannot abandon them without contradicting ourselves, without sinning against the rules which govern the use of language, and so making our utterances self-stultifying. In other words, the truths of logic and mathematics are analytic propositions or tautologies.
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Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.
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You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
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I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.
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