Will Harvey
Will Harvey
Will Harveyis a software developer and Silicon Valley entrepreneur. At the age of 15 he wrote Music Construction Setfor the Apple II, the first commercial sheet music processor for home computers. Music Construction Set was ported to other systems by its publisher, Electronic Arts. He wrote two games for the Apple IIgs: Zany Golfand The Immortal. Harvey founded two consumer virtual world Internet companies: IMVU, an instant messaging company, and There, Inc., an MMOG company...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
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With most new HIV infections occurring in youth and women, particularly in communities of color, ignoring the effectiveness of prevention programs while allowing abstinence-only programs to promote ideology over science is negligent and puts young lives on the line.
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With twenty six letters, you can create anything you like - any person, any world, any place, any emotion. And they are so potent, so powerful, and at the same time, they're marks on the page, and that's all. There's nothing else to them.
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Unless there's a reason to re-open ancient history, we should move on,
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There is an opportunity with the contract expiring to take the S.C. Philharmonic to the next level.
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There are several parents who feel that it is time their students become part of the mainstream and go directly to Gene Witt Elementary. And there are a few that still feel they should remain in a small environment.
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What I love about this so much is it hasn't shown its potential. It's more exciting to me to be at a place where I can at least attempt to break some ground than to basically follow a set path.
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What we did not address in TOPOFF3 was the question of panic, ... If the public thinks they're exposed to a life-threatening agent, they're not going to stand in long, orderly lines and wait to go through narrow doors to get their pills or shots. They're going to stampede.
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What we do best is business. It makes perfect sense to leverage our skills and knowledge of the business community toward this.
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What happens with these guys (organizations) is it's very hard to find a successor. When the charismatic founder goes away, who's going to replace him?
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What I always liked about Socrates was his insistence on questioning things for the sake of reaching some sort of clarity - even if it is only clarity about the gaps in our knowledge.
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When we first invested in Red Hat, it was thought to be totally insane. When we funded MySQL, it was only partly insane.
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I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside.
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They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion, and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact with this wonderful mystery. We don't dictate those terms.
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I've learned never to expect people to be better than they are, but to always have faith that they can be more.