Baranoff Elementary Quotes & Sayings

You know, development sometimes is viewed as a project in which you give people things and nothing much happens, which is perfectly valid, but if you just focus on that, then you'd also have to say that venture capital is pretty stupid, too. Its hit rate is pathetic. But occasionally, you get successes, you fund a Google or something, and suddenly venture capital is vaunted as the most amazing field of all time. Our hit rate in development is better than theirs, but we should strive to make it better. — Bill Gates

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. — G.K. Chesterton

Where you can make up ground is if the wind blows and your opponents make big numbers. I think you can shoot three, four, five-under par. But to make up a six, seven or eight-shot lead, that will be tough without the leaders coming back. — Phil Mickelson

It's not easy to talk like this with other people because they don't know. They don't know what it's like to be hated by the people who are supposed to love you. — Rebecca Donovan

To hope is to risk frustration. Make up your mind to risk frustration. — Thomas Merton

I need a little criticism while I make a record so that I kind of feel like: okay, I know that I'm doing the best that I can do because someone is actually here challenging it. — Benji Madden

He might be a dragon, he might be someone whose name instilled fear in other people, but boy howdy, he sure turned my crank. — Katie MacAlister

Difficulty is a coin which the learned conjure with so as not to reveal the vanity of their studies and which human stupidity is keen to accept in payment — Michel De Montaigne

It seemed like my favourite kind of job - a wonderful chance to ask something absolutely fundamental: the fate of the Universe and whether the Universe was infinite or not. — Saul Perlmutter