"I don't think there are many people up in research who have strong ideas about things that they haven't really had experience with."

-- Ken Thompson

#Strong Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“People either love me or they hate me, or they don't really care.”
“If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience.”
“I'm going to take the legend of Hulk Hogan and kill it!”
“Patience and endurance were not virtues in a woman; they were necessities, forced on her. Perhaps some day things would change and women would renounce them. They would rise up and say: 'We are not patient. We will endure no more.' Then what would happen to the world?”
“Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.”
“Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004. On February 5, we were feeling pretty confident, even from observing the first few hours of usage. Students used it like crazy. They'd sign up then spend the next 3-4 hours on it. Then we'd go to lecture hall and see it on every computer screen there.”

Source : "Dustin Moskovitz: Why I Left Facebook To Start Asana" by Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. September 12, 2011.
“Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.”
“It's just very hard to teach a class of students about what has happened in the Global Financial Crisis, how we ended up there and how we got to where we are today, without having some basic, non-trivial understanding of the financial sector, credit, and the banking system.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

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