"When Facebook famously moved out to Palo Alto there were people in the same house Facebook was based in working on different ideas. It is vital to remember that,"

-- Patrick Collison

#Ideas Quotes #People Quotes #House Quotes

“The atmosphere of Venus consists of ammonia, sulfur, and nitric oxide. Man must have lived there once.”
“I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.”
“I'm not a minimalist, as I'm sure you've noticed.”
“I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.”
“I'm very fortunate in that all the mediums I work in are extremely collaborative. Movies are probably the most solitary on a day to day basis, but even then you have producers and studio executives to work with and bounce ideas off of.”
“So long as a man attends to his business the public does not count his drinks. When he fails they notice if he takes even a glass of root beer.”
“If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilisation developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that COâ‚‚ will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm [parts per million] to at most 350 ppm... If the present overshoot of this target COâ‚‚ is not brief, there is a possibility of seeding irreversible catastrophic effects.”
“But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and fade. Clouds fill with rain and snow, empty themselves, and fill again. The moon is born, and dies, and is reborn. Around millions of clocks swing hour hands, and minute hands, and second hands. Around goes the continual circle of the notes of the scale. Around goes the circle of night and day, the circle of weeks forever revolving, and of months, and of years.”

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