Piers famous quotes

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  • If you call a hundred dollars but have a chance to win $10,000, those are excellent odds if you are at a table with people who have two aces or two kings. If you catch a flop you will get all their chips. I just play them because there is value.

  • In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.

  • This is about saving children's lives. It is not about agencies and services protecting themselves.

  • Think about how rare it is that you exist at all. Also think about time this way: If something exists, even for a second, then forever in the future that thing “existed”, and forever in the past that thing “was going to exist”. So to even be conscious for a millisecond is a kind of immortality, but you have more than a millisecond. You have minutes. Hours. Months. A year? Years! This is a gift.

  • When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.

  • I love any kind of food. I dont have a sweet tooth, but I love haleem.

  • Perception is a tool that's pointed on both ends.

  • The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none

  • Beautiful things don't ask for attention.

  • My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.