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As we all know, sexism in the workplace is a serious issue. It's something that needs active disruption and change. ”
Parents are, of course, most important in shaping their children's lives, but teachers are critically important as well. Who among us doesn't look back on a few great teachers who inspired us, opened up new worlds, and helped make us who we are? ”
No one would suggest completely ignoring news about your investments. Enron investors, for example, would have been well served to sell once early reports of accounting irregularities surfaced. But the key is to keep news in context and act only if further reflection or study indicates that the core thesis for an investment has changed. ”
I have never believed that large-cap stocks are too well followed to be anything but efficiently priced. ”
Well-managed companies with independent boards have nothing to fear from activist shareholders. ”
In the entertainment industry, there is this fear of getting older, because we have high definition television now, and you can see things that the human eye can't even pick up. But the good thing about standup is that the older you get, the funnier you get. ”
The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and where are they? They seem to have as much or more vitality and complexity as the people around you. ”
It's simply unrealistic to depend on secrecy for security in computer software. You may be able to keep the exact workings of the program out of general circulation, but can you prevent the code from being reverse-engineered by serious opponents? Probably not. The secret to strong security: less reliance on secrets. ”
It isn't that secrets are never needed in security. It's that they are never desirable. ”
I never threw the spitter, well maybe once or twice when I really needed to get a guy out real bad. ”