"Optimization is generally detrimental to future success, but it is the only way to accomplish present success in competition with others who are equally interested in short-term results."

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Source : "O'reilly subjugated to the Lisp juggenaut". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. January 18, 2004.

Erik Naggum

#Competition Quotes #Way Quotes #Results Quotes

“If you put your mind to doing whatever it is you want to do, good things can happen.”
“And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end”
“All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.”
“Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.”
“When you take that to the next level of guiding a group of filmmakers to actually depict him, it's even more challenging. The one that that I think everybody involved believes is that we won't move forward with this until we believe it's right. There's no deadline that a movie has to be made by. We have to believe that we have served the responsibility, however long it takes us to get to that point.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“If anyone has the opportunity to work with that woman, jump at it. She is the most generous, most giving director I have ever worked with in my entire life. She is classy. She speaks a dozen difference languages.”
“I quit because I canâ€™t stand seeing kids come to class hungry and needing shoes. I thought I could do more by organizing farm workers than by trying to teach their hungry children.”

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