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I guess people feel like they kind of know me. The game developer me, or the Twitter persona, that's Notch. It's a censored version. The real me is Markus.
Markus Persson
Me
Game
People
Twitter
Guess
Kind
Developer
Feel
Like
Know
Real
Version
Persona
Censored
Notch
Success means making profits and avoiding losses.
Martin Zweig
Success
Making
Losses
Means
Avoiding
Profits
As men get older, the toys get more expensive.
Marvin Davis
Age
Men
Older
More
Toys
Get
Expensive
When those super intelligence goes into robots, those robots with the super intelligence will change our lives.
Masayoshi Son
Change
Intelligence
Will
Our
Our Lives
Those
Super
Robots
Goes
Lives
Think big; think disruptive. Execute with full passion.
Masayoshi Son
Passion
Big
Think
Execute
Full
Think Big
Disruptive
I don't like accidental success. It's what Bill Gates calls 'random,' a term he uses with the opposite of respect.
Masayoshi Son
Success
Respect
Random
He
Term
Like
Calls
Accidental
Opposite
Bill
Bill Gates
Uses
Gates
Don't think about work in your bedroom or relaxation area.
Matt Mullenweg
Work
Think
Relaxation
About
Area
Bedroom
Your
Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere.
Maurice Saatchi
Time
Great
Nature
Musicians
Creativity
Human Nature
Trends
Everywhere
Kind
Touch
Prevailing
Directors
Tendencies
Writers
Know
Practiced
How
Amenable
Human
Artists
Prediction
Who
Chord
Actor
Based
Humans
Startling
After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.
Maurice Strong
Environmental
Natural
Words
Other
Earth
Corporation
Running
Rather
Environment
Maintenance
Like
Global
Global Environment
Undermining
Than
Accounts
Sustainability
In Other Words
After
Depreciation
Capital
Means
Your
Whole
Asset
Keeping
Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child.
Maurice Strong
Trouble
Babies
Some
Something
Restriction
Point
Got
Least
Years
Years Ago
Canada
Child
Might
Even
Right
Necessary
Suggesting
We in the industrialized world make a greater difference because our ecological footprint, our impact on the condition of the environment, is 40 to 50 times larger than that of people in the developing world.
Maurice Strong
People
World
Our
Impact
Ecological
Environment
Developing
Developing World
Footprint
Industrialized
Make
Greater
Because
Condition
Times
Than
Difference
Larger
I learn something from criticism because when it comes from sources you respect you always examine it and learn.
Maurice Strong
You
Respect
Criticism
Examine
Something
Learn
Because
Always
Sources
Anyone who is seriously interested in me would usually do a little more homework and realise that the extreme criticisms are almost exclusively ideologically based.
Maurice Strong
Me
Seriously
Homework
Extreme
Would
Criticisms
More
Almost
Anyone
Realise
Interested
Little
Who
Based
Eric Ashcroft, a gentle, kind, popular man with a wicked sense of humour, was always modest about his wartime exploits, but eventually, with much prompting from his persistent son, he told me of his terrifying experience on D-Day.
Michael Ashcroft
Me
Man
Son
Experience
Sense
Wicked
Humour
Kind
About
He
Gentle
Terrifying
Always
Eric
His
Persistent
Modest
Much
Exploits
Wartime
Popular
Eventually
Wicked Sense
Every breakthrough business idea begins with solving a common problem. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity. I discovered a big one when I took apart an IBM PC. I made two interesting discoveries: The components were all manufactured by other companies, and the system that retailed for $3,000 cost about $600 in parts.
Michael Dell
Business
Problem
Opportunity
Made
Big
Every
Other
Took
System
Components
Solving
About
Cost
Idea
Parts
Were
Discovered
Discoveries
Begins
Big One
Common
Bigger
Apart
Interesting
Breakthrough
Companies
Two
Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.
Michael LeBoeuf
Every
Because
Without
Greatest
Customers
Company
Assets
When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.
Michael LeBoeuf
Time
You
Focus
Thought
Few
Down
Think
Tools
Paper
Pencil
Excellent
Write
Attention
Thus
Concentration
Ideas
Make
Another
Same
Any
Same Time
Automatically
Them
Us
Your
Full
Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.
Michael Lee-Chin
Life
You
Ups And Downs
Defines
Deal
How
Linear
Ups
Downs
In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism, but the internal forces of apathy, inertia and ignorance of our own heritage.
Michael Steinhardt
Ignorance
People
Own
Heritage
Jewish People
Our
Threat
Force
Forces
Greatest
Inertia
Greatest Threat
North
North America
America
Apathy
Internal
External
Jewish
It's all about people. It's about networking and being nice to people and not burning any bridges. Your book is going to impress, but in the end it is people that are going to hire you.
Mike Davidson
You
Book
People
Impress
Nice
About
Networking
Hire
End
Any
Going
Being
Burning
In The End
Being Nice
Your
Bridges
Kind of like Google crawls the Web, we crawl the social networks. Where Google analyzes links and Web pages, we look at the same thing with people. So we can tell, for example, who you interact with more frequently. Or if it's not frequency, maybe it's consistency.
Mike McCue
You
People
Consistency
Example
Google
Same Thing
Tell
Kind
Web
More
Networks
Like
For Example
Look
Frequency
Frequently
Links
Same
Maybe
Interact
Where
Crawl
Social
Pages
Social Networks
Who
Thing
A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Fate
Inevitable
Russia
Left
Turn
Necessary
If information wants to be free, then that's true everywhere, not just in information technology.
Mitch Kapor
Technology
Free
Everywhere
True
Just
Wants
Information
Information Technology
Then
When you ask people what they think of Africa, they think of AIDS, genocide, disasters, famine.
Mo Ibrahim
You
People
Genocide
Think
AIDS
Disasters
Africa
Famine
Ask
Far from being hopeless, Africa is full of hope and potential, maybe more so than any other continent. The challenge is to ensure that its potential is utilised.
Mo Ibrahim
Hope
Challenge
Hopeless
Other
Ensure
More
Potential
Continent
Than
Any
Maybe
Africa
Being
Far
Full
Literacy in Tunisia is almost 100%. It's amazing - no country in the region or even in Asia can match Tunisia in education.
Mo Ibrahim
Education
Amazing
Country
No Country
Almost
Match
Literacy
Tunisia
Region
Asia
Even
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