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Cryptocurrencies allowed non-custodial exchange, without users having to sign up or create accounts.
~ Erik Voorhees
In open-source in general, the power lies in connecting the author of the software directly to users, eliminating the middleman.
~ Peter Fenton
Companies have choices to make about what extent they're handling their users' content.
~ Rebecca MacKinnon
Solving problems for users at scale ultimately results in monetization opportunities.
~ Ruth Porat
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination.
~ Andrew Lang
Nature never uses prime numbers. But mathematicians do.
~ Frank Drake
Everything Marilyn does is different from any other woman, strange and exciting, from the way she talks to the way she uses that magnificent torso.
~ Clark Gable
Critics of 'economic sciences' sometimes refer to the development of a 'pseudoscience' of economics, arguing that it uses the trappings of science, like dense mathematics, but only for show.
~ Robert J. Shiller
It's ridiculous how the United States practically every week sanctions Cuba and then uses manipulative language to say this is 'helping' the Cuban people.
~ Miguel Diaz-Canel
Trump says nothing at all, nothing of substance, anyway. You just think he is, because he insists he is, and uses the word 'frankly' a lot.
~ Will Cain
The omniscient narrator is a bizarre technique, when you think about it, and no one uses it much anymore. But for the novels I want to write, it's the only approach that makes sense to me.
~ Min Jin Lee
I mean, the first 'Back to the Future' is kind of a perfect script, I think, in terms of handling time travel the best. It depends on your definition. To me, that means it effectively uses it in the story.
~ Rian Johnson
Ray Bradbury was the first author that I was really exposed to back in grade school. I'm a big Philip K. Dick fan, but the emotion and humanity that Bradbury brings to his stories and the way he uses sci-fi to get at the human heart is something that's unique and for me incredibly influential.
~ Rian Johnson
The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This intimacy - the words on the page being sent back and forth from engaged editor to open author - is unique in my experience.
~ Alice Sebold
It's incredibly disturbing when a country, particularly your own country, uses discrimination as a basis for an investigation.
~ Hasan M. Elahi
There is nowhere in the four Gospels where Jesus uses the word 'homosexual.'
~ Michael Moore
We all fantasize about work that uses our creativity, is self-directed, happens during the hours we choose, and occurs in an attractively lit setting with fascinating people - you know, jobs like women have on TV.
~ Sandra Tsing Loh
My hairstylist uses the Bumble & Bumble hairspray, which is the best smelling hairspray there is!
~ Ella Eyre
Jon Jones is amazing; he's so confident. He uses his elbows very well, and I think he's a great talent.
~ Junior dos Santos
I'd be somewhat disinclined to be responsible for the fortunes of a franchise that uses a sitcom as their philosophical north star.
~ Brendan Hunt
It is formatted, and I'm tired of using vi. I get really bored.
~ Bill Joy
I think the danger with using the term 'trilogy' is that it sets up particular expectations in the reader's mind.
~ Alastair Reynolds
I'm a little skeptical about using the Constitution this way, but I also believe marriage is between a man and a woman and that the courts shouldn't legislate this matter.
~ Pete Coors
A memoir is not an autobiography. It's a true story told as a novel, using techniques of novelization. The author is allowed to compress events, combine characters, change names, change the sequence of events, just as if he's writing a novel. But it's got to be true.
~ Homer Hickam