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We want to offer developers a carrot rather than beat them with a stick.


Alan Isaacson

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E.M. FORSTER It's a bit of a carrot-and-stick strategy. The carrot is to produce industry-accepted solutions that...
ANDREW MORAN How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS We're trying to use the carrot and not the stick.
EDISON PERES We want to introduce them to the different avenues of agriculture that are available to them; not on...
KAREN ALLEYNE People are familiar with 'the stick' of the Tea Party... challenging incumbents, flooding th...
NIGER INNIS The carrot hasn't worked. We've got to pick up the stick.
DEBBIE HERSMAN Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.
REBECCA SOLNIT Sometimes we fall in love with who we want them to be rather than who they truly are.
INAAM ABDULKARIM We want to be consistent with all developers.
YVONNE HESTER They'll have to beat me out of here with a stick
MATT BARRETT We want to give them to people who want to live in them rather than sell them for scrap metal.
BEREKET SELASSIE Engineers want more than a bare processor. So, we offer a tool, SOPC Builder that lets developers ch...
BOB GARRETT I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like ...
BRIAN HERBERT Unification of differences is power.
SHESH NATH VERNWAL We want them to get an offer to the table that they can live with. We want a deal that is more than ...
DAVE MINSHALL The players arrive here with a hockey stick in one hand and a suitcase in another. We want to let th...
ROBERT KING Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE There are some oligarchs that make me want to bite them just as one crunches into a carrot or a radi...
EVITA PERóN I'd rather be David Ladd's father than Alan Ladd any day.
ALAN LADD And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) In a sense we are fortunate that most attackers want to control and use systems they attack rather t...
ALLAN COX Obedience is bondage, if God wants to be adored he should make himself more loving.
LAURA WHITCOMB If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Life is a divine blessing for those who live life to add values in the lives of others.
SEEMA BRAIN OPENERS We know we can beat them. We know we should be better than them. But I guess there is a little bit o...
DUSTIN RISSEEUW This is a tough one to swallow. I think I'd rather get beat by 25 or 30 than get beat by a point.
JOE MACRI I would have rather been beat by a plumber than Kathy Griffin.
RON WHITE We don't want to judge mothers and we don't want to know the reasons for them abandoning the babies....
KATE ALLEN We try to tone down the 'Alan is so great' kind of stuff. We don't want him to get a big head, and h...
KEN CLARK We stayed with them. I don't know how we stayed with them, but we were staying with them. I'm just h...
DANIEL DILLON We didn't want to stick them with brand-newborn babies in shelters with thousands of people. There's...
CHERI JOHNSON We can compete with them physically but, on a technical level, we will beat them. We will try and be...
ANDREI ZUBAREV I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.
BOB FELLER Negative thoughts stick around because we believe them, not because we want them or choose them.
ANDREW J. BERNSTEIN Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I'm a leader, not a dictator. I want to persuade people rather than threaten or control them.
JEREMY CORBYN The program is all carrot and no stick. Local schools don't get millions but corporate interests do.
JON GREENBAUM It means a lot for us to beat them. If we want to go as far as we think we can, they are a team we'r...
MARK LEONARD When you beat a team a lot, you don't ever want to lose to them. We want to keep this thing going. W...
GREG BLUE A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD We tend to think of Steam as tools for content developers and tools for producers. We're just al...
GABE NEWELL They beat me across my back, they kicked me. They beat me with the night stick.
JAMES SPENCER Ladies,Please dress how you would like to be approached and talked to. Don't dress like a hoe and ex...
UNKNOWN Interdependent Thinking is a true system view of the world.
PEARL ZHU „Ein Mensch kann niemals Tier werden, er stürzt am Tier vorbei in den Abgrund
MARLEN HAUSHOFER Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rathe...
CRISS JAMI We were trying to find ways to lengthen the carrot and shorten the stick. We were looking for ways t...
PETER ADLER The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today
JEAN COCTEAU Well I beat things around with my stick once in awhile.
KIRA4INU They want to beat us with everything they've got. We know that. We took it from them last year and t...
GRANT LAMAN A fool bolts a door with a boiled carrot.
UNKNOWN We were unable to stick with them to a man. When we turned to a zone, that seemed to stall them and ...
CHIP DELPRETE I think I'd much rather have a wooden stick and metallic ball than a real dire wolf on set.
RICHARD MADDEN We don't want to support developers to build their private roads.
BILL LOTZ The same lessons she teaches mainstream developers will apply to adult content developers, too. Who ...
BRENDA BRATHWAITE There is definitely palace intrigue, ... why should Dorman stick around? This issue is going to come...
SCOTT CLELAND Never bolt your door with a boiled carrot.
IRISH PROVERB It's a big game. They want to beat us. We want to beat them. It's about seeing who can say they're t...
HESTER READY In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate...
CARTER G. WOODSON More than anything, she just wants to beat them. She really wants to beat them. It runs a little bit...
KATIE HARDMAN To err is human, to forgive is divine... but I’m only a cardinal and cardinals are human, so rathe...
MARK LAWRENCE People will tend to buy what you have to offer if they want it and when you show you care more about...
LORRIN L. LEE I'd much rather be known as some curvy Kate than as some skinny stick.
KATE WINSLET There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE We just try to keep them out of the post mainly and beat them on offense with our quickness if we ar...
CHASE YODER Many plans offer more than the standard benefit. Most offer a zero deductible and a flat rate, rathe...
MIKE FIERBERG Would I quarrel with them if they said 35? But to suggest, 'We want you to die in prison. Isn't that...
SVERRE STAURSET The carrot on the stick works well. The employer is avoiding the train wreck when these people are o...
GREGG LEHMAN The exchange is saying to shareholders, 'Stick with us, you get the money. Why take an offer from an...
ANGELA KNIGHT When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER We beat a team that we were supposed to beat and we beat them handily. It should not have been a clo...
JACKIE TURPIN Why foul with 0.5 seconds left? It was dumb. We should have beat them. We had enough confidence to b...
DANIEL KICKERT We've got to keep working with these developers and encouraging them to revitalize. We keep our fing...
AL COOK Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard...
NANETTE L. AVERY Be careful of relying on the opinion of others, these are the same people that like liver.
NANETTE L. AVERY Why ruin my sister's birthday simply because the entire planet was going to hell in a hand basket?
T.C. BOYLE For Alan, the material is 25 years old and there is a part of him that has moved on. It is disappoin...
JAMES MCTEIGUE We don't ask the kids to dress up. We'd rather have them with us than to have to fight with them to ...
GAYLE TOLCHIN We're definitely motivated to beat them and to show him that we are a better team than he thought at...
BEN LEBER Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick
PROVERB I did a Broadway show with Alan Alda and how much money can Alan Alda have.
ALICE BARRETT People want new partners, but would rather take up with someone they know than a stranger.
ANDREA BAKER I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware ...
JUDITH WRIGHT There's more to eggs on a stick than just eggs on a stick.
LEE SOMERSTEIN We are this fucking stick in the end...
DEYTH BANGER He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what the...
E.M. FORSTER When you eat a carrot that is nothing but carrot it zooms through your system as a carrot. When you ...
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ALAN KAY I'll work overtime to open the doors of opportunity to industry and commerce.
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ALAN MOORE I like Jacques Derrida; I think he's funny. I like my philosophy with a few jokes and puns. I kn...
ALAN MOORE We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
ALAN WATTS Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
ALAN PATON You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven...
ALAN GREENSPAN I was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' A...
ALAN BALL Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.
ALAN PARKER I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it pers...
ALAN BALL Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go u...
ALAN GREENSPAN And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, ...
ALAN WATTS There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world insid...
ALAN MOORE Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of ea...
ALAN KAY If we don't re-charge the American Brand, all future challenges - economic, social and political...
ALAN SIEGEL On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12....
ALAN RICKMAN So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impos...
ALAN WATTS Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
ALAN WATTS So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they...
ALAN WATTS Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is a...
ALAN WATTS In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about th...
ALAN WATTS I owe my solitude to other people.
ALAN WATTS We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
ALAN WATTS Saints need sinners.
ALAN WATTS You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
ALAN WATTS Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
ALAN WATTS