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The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.
Lady Gaga
Me
Crazy
Heart
Old
Car
Parents
Big
Our
Everywhere
Valve
License
Purchased
Followed
Only
Had
He
Bought
Anniversary
New
New Car
Him
Because
Making
Getting
Lady
Big Things
Lady Gaga
Gaga
Plate
Dad
Things
Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there's not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.
Dick Cavett
Good
Anger
Pressure
Reading
Valve
Tells
Unpleasant
Good Thing
Wrong
Limited
Subject
Anything
Us
Really
Even
Thing
Amount
I have a cow's valve in my heart.
Maurice Strong
Heart
Valve
Cow
Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.
Wavy Gravy
Life
You
Pressure
Laughter
Laugh
Valve
Beans
Got
Brains
Ceiling
Either
Your
Suffer
In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn't exist today without the PC, or Epic, or Zynga, or Google. They all wouldn't have existed without the openness of the platform.
Gabe Newell
Today
Innovation
Google
Closed
Valve
Openness
Without
Occur
Exist
Existed
Bunch
Order
Happen
Happening
Epic
Platform
Platforms
Things
Need
About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'
Gabe Newell
You
Game
People
Valuable
Job
Half
Own
Elsewhere
Valve
Run
Would
Would-Be
About
More
Take
Another
Answer
Always
How
Making
Go
Question
Than
Option
Just
Companies
Company
Start
The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, 'You have to change something in the handbook.'
Gabe Newell
You
Change
Culture
First
Say
Valve
Pretty
Something
New
First Things
Handbook
Much
Things
We spend all this energy keeping our lives normal and safe and predictable, and the result is that our approved cultural safety valve is the movies. So in films, anyway, the hero is obliged to represent the continuance of social values and institutions, and his permission to act is much more seriously limited than the villain's.
Peter Coyote
Result
Safety
Seriously
Hero
Values
Energy
Films
Our
Spend
Approved
Our Lives
Valve
More
Obliged
Institutions
Safe
Limited
Permission
Continuance
His
Cultural
Normal
Than
Represent
Predictable
Anyway
Movies
Social
Much
Act
Villain
Lives
Keeping
Do you remember the first three years of Steam? People absolutely hated that Valve forced you to launch their game through what some people called a virus at the time, which was the Steam client. But Steam led the digital distribution revolution: it was the first across all platforms.
Tim Sweeney
Time
You
Game
People
Remember
Digital
Some People
Three
First
Revolution
Virus
Valve
Launch
Distribution
Hated
Some
Steam
Through
Absolutely
Forced
Client
Years
Led
Which
Across
Platforms
I had a liver transplant, then I had a pacemaker put in, then I had a new knee put it, then I had a heart valve put in. I'm almost brand new. I have a lot of new parts.
Jim Nabors
Heart
Valve
Had
Knee
Put
Almost
New
Parts
Lot
Brand
Brand New
Pacemaker
Then
Transplant
Liver
I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.
Sam Neill
Time
You
School
Old
Tell
Valve
About
Armstrong
Heard
Common
Where
Which
Room
Landing
Shot
Radio
Rehearsing
Play
Kennedy
University
Comedy as dissent or any art form as dissent is going to be our last safety valve.
Varun Grover
Art
Comedy
Safety
Dissent
Our
Valve
Art Form
Any
Going
Form
Last
While Free Choice Vouchers didn't fulfill my vision of a health care system in which every American would be empowered to hire and fire their insurance company, they were a foothold for choice and competition and a safety valve for Americans whose employers are already forcing them to bear more and more of their family's health insurance costs.
Ron Wyden
Health
Family
Competition
Vision
Safety
Care
Free
Fire
Forcing
Every
System
Valve
Would
Would-Be
Free Choice
More
Costs
More And More
Bear
Vouchers
Employers
Empowered
Health Care
Health Care System
Health Insurance
Insurance
Hire
Were
American
Which
While
Them
Choice
Fulfill
Company
Whose
Every American
The problem is, we're moving to software-as-service, which can be yanked or transformed at any moment. The ability of your PC to run independent code is an important safety valve.
Jonathan Zittrain
Problem
Safety
Important
Independent
Valve
Run
Ability
Any
Which
Transformed
Moving
Your
Moment
Code
The philosophy at Valve and Gearbox is that if things can't be done better, they shouldn't be done at all.
Randy Pitchford
Better
Philosophy
Valve
Done
Things
The way humor's usually used in horror, it's as a pressure-release valve; without it, the drama would escalate out of all control almost immediately.
Stephen Graham Jones
Humor
Control
Drama
Way
Immediately
Out
Valve
Would
Horror
Almost
Without
Used
People should have an escape valve for their money, their assets. If you have substantial financial assets, the government is going to confiscate the purchasing power of those assets and spend it.
Peter Schiff
Government
You
People
Money
Financial
Power
Spend
Those
Valve
Purchasing
Purchasing Power
Escape
Going
Substantial
Should
Assets
I use a portable pocket ultrasound device instead of a stethoscope to listen to the heart, and I share it with the patient in real time. 'Look at your valve, look at your heart-muscle strength.' So they're looking at it with me. Normally a patient is tested by an ultrasonographer who is not allowed to tell them anything.
Eric Topol
Time
Strength
Me
Heart
Looking
Patient
Tell
Valve
Pocket
Allowed
Share
Instead
Device
Look
Real
Tested
Normally
Listen
Real Time
Anything
Them
Use
Your
Who
Portable
I'd been at Valve since I got out of college. I felt like I kind of grew up there, and I wanted to see what else was out in the world. One of the owners of Airtight Games is a friend of mine, and he asked if I would run a team there. It just sounded like a great opportunity.
Kim Swift
Great
World
Opportunity
College
Else
Mine
Out
Valve
Kind
Run
Would
See
Great Opportunity
He
Since
Like
Felt
Got
Been
Friend
Up
Owners
Just
Wanted
Grew
Asked
Games
Team
It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Life
Age
Safety
Solace
Valve
Middle
If we know there is enough money in there for nine or ten months, we won't worry too much. They can come back and get more-not all they want, but a large piece of it. So you always have the supplemental as a safety valve.
John William McCormack
You
Money
Safety
Too Much
Too
Enough
Enough Money
Nine
Back
Worry
Months
Valve
Ten
Supplemental
Come
Know
Piece
Always
Get
Want
Much
Large
No one wants to stoke coal if he can regulate an oil valve instead.
Stavros Niarchos
Valve
No-One
He
Instead
Stoke
Oil
Wants
Coal
Regulate