Tom Preston-Werner famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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When I'm old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say 'wow, that was an adventure,' not 'wow, I sure felt safe.'
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Bootstrapping is a way to do something about the problems you have without letting someone else give you permission to do them.
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You’re either the one that creates the automation or you’re getting automated.
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You’re either the one that creates the automation or you’re getting automated.
-- Tom Preston-Werner
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Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.
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One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.
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With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
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When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.
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Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.
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Kids are dying from causes of sexual activity. You're not going to find a tombstone stating that Frankie died because he was a virgin.
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Ned passed the next few minutes quietly not dying in his office, and was pleased with how well it was going. He'd stayed alive longer, but now that he was concentrating on it, it felt more like an accomplishment.
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Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.
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I was afraid of the pain of dying and terribly reluctant to leave the world behind because I liked life a lot, even if it had been pretty tough sometimes.
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Even if we die at 100, we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.
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