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That culture of frugality and discipline is really important for the Y Combinator mindset.


Sam Altman

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"Yeah," he said. "I guess it is."
"Turn out the light, Sam."
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY There is no dignity
quite so impressive,
and no independence
quite so important,
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ROBERT ALTMAN If you don't have a leg to stand on, you can't put your foot down.
ROBERT ALTMAN When I see an American flag flying, it's a joke.
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ROBERT ALTMAN It's a process that I don't believe in, ... And I don't think it's correct for my kind of films.
ROBERT ALTMAN If George W. Bush is elected president, I'm leaving for France.
ROBERT ALTMAN Real GDP growth has been relatively healthy, but most Americans don't feel it. It's a transformative...
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ROGER ALTMAN We feel there are about eight projects which we feel wouldn't have advanced without New Jobs for New...
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DANA ALTMAN There will be no whining or complaining from us.
DANA ALTMAN Brian has been ready for this opportunity for a long time. He's always done an outstanding job for m...
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SIDNEY ALTMAN I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily f...
SIDNEY ALTMAN I should mention that while I was growing up, Einstein was presented as a worthy role model for a yo...
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SIDNEY ALTMAN Furthermore, neither of our research groups set out in search of RNA catalysis.
SIDNEY ALTMAN For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.
SIDNEY ALTMAN Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in ...
SIDNEY ALTMAN By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable...
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SIDNEY ALTMAN About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first t...
SIDNEY ALTMAN Once these licenses get issued (in China), then we expect there will be rapid deployment there.
STEVE ALTMAN R&D is certainly a significant factor there.
STEVE ALTMAN It is ironic that these companies claim that Qualcomm's behavior has harmful effects on the mobile t...
STEVE ALTMAN It would take some time and would depend on carrier interest,
STEVE ALTMAN We are willing to license these patents on fair and reasonable terms,
STEVE ALTMAN We plan to meet with the Commission very soon to begin the process of providing the facts that dispr...
STEVE ALTMAN The jury was confused and did not know what they were doing.
STEVE ALTMAN [The Breen news] came right out of space, ... That was the last thing I was expecting to hear this a...
STEVE ALTMAN Our director of education focuses on finding innovating and interactive experiences. It's hands-on, ...
SCOTT ALTMAN As the commander, I've realized that going through the whole training flow, your focus really widens...
SCOTT ALTMAN Watching the sunrise and sunset, and the way it illuminated the solar arrays on the service module w...
SCOTT ALTMAN Welcome back to Earth after a fantastic flight.
SCOTT ALTMAN Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a fe...
SIDNEY ALTMAN Housing works like a trampoline. When it is pushed down far enough and long enough, it will eventual...
ROGER ALTMAN The 2008 economic crisis and Great Recession forced widespread restructuring throughout the U.S. eco...
ROGER ALTMAN The idea that America, whose oil production has been declining for the past 40 years, is now on trac...
ROGER ALTMAN a slow but perceptible deterioration of our employer-based (health insurance) system.
DREW ALTMAN The good news is the rate of increase in health care costs is down, ... The bad news is that's the o...
DREW ALTMAN I was of course discussing the book of Leviticus. I don't know why your mind is so filthy these days...
MARSHA ALTMAN I didn't say what kind of book. You have a foul mind Bingley."
"Don't mock me on my sister's we...
MARSHA ALTMAN We are united in the hope that every individual will someday enjoy at least the intellectual privile...
SIDNEY ALTMAN It's all just one film to me. Just different chapters.
ROBERT ALTMAN How dare we continue to show this kind of mass destruction in movies,
ROBERT ALTMAN My heart only beats for you but you never listen it
SAM You want to be happy? you should first learn how to let it go
SAM Atoms consist of a positive nucleus and negative electrons flying around outside it. Electrons close...
SAM KEAN Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
SAM WALTON Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normal...
SAM YAGAN A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live unde...
SAM HOUSTON Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
SAM KEEN We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly...
SAM KEEN It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he woul...
SAM LEVENSON You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what...
SAM RAYBURN The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
SAM RAYBURN I like power and I like to use it.
SAM RAYBURN Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
SAM RAYBURN If you want to get along, go along.
SAM RAYBURN When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'
SAM RAYBURN Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
SAM RAYBURN Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
SAM RAYBURN You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
SAM RAYBURN I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to fil...
SAM RAIMI Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic bo...
SAM RAIMI Some movies to me are like vampires - they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like tha...
SAM RAIMI R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.
SAM RAIMI I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan makin...
SAM RAIMI I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that ...
SAM RAIMI My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never...
SAM RAIMI I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.
SAM RAIMI Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's ...
SAM RAIMI It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot.
SAM RAIMI As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I ...
SAM RAIMI I feel the horror audience is a great audience, and I would ideally make a movie that would give the...
SAM RAIMI I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.
SAM RAIMI I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately wit...
SAM RAIMI I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I reall...
SAM RAIMI I like a good mono track, it's right up front. I don't need all the surrounds telling me the...
SAM RAIMI I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just tr...
SAM RAIMI I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her gr...
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