Middleman's Quotes

#1. A middleman's business is to make himself a necessary evil.

William Gibson

#2. From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation.

Eric Clapton

#3. Diet food is for lazy people.

Ice-T

#4. I ... am an evolved being who deals solely with the source of light ... in all of us in our own minds. No middleman required.

Bill Hicks

#5. I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

Peter Max

#6. We've had the same set designer and the same crew in many cases since 1972.

Mink Stole

#7. It is well-known what a middleman is; he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

Benjamin Disraeli

#8. The rules, religion to religion that man set forth, made me shy away from religion and have my own one on one with God and cut out the middleman.

Ja Rule

#9. The idea was always that someone would be allowed to make a profit as an intermediary. The key question is: Who will get to be that middleman?"7

Brad Stone

#10. I don't read newspapers anymore - I just lie to myself and cut out the middleman.

Frankie Boyle

#11. Shortest distance between two points is not a straight line - it's a middleman.

Ayn Rand

#12. Computerization eliminates the middleman

Isaac Asimov

#13. Digital locks are roach motels: copyrighted works check in, but they don't check out. Creators and investors lose control of their business - they become commodity suppliers for a distribution channel that calls all the shots. Anti-circumvention isn't copyright protection: it's middleman protection.

Cory Doctorow

#14. If no one seems to understand
Start your own revolution and cut out the middleman

Billy Bragg

#15. She reverse engineered a startup based on market conditions, industry trends, and nascent investor fads.

Douglas Rushkoff

#16. I'm assuming you have a reason behind this irrational need to conform to this institution. (Eric)

Shannon A. Thompson

#17. Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you're just a middleman.

Seth Godin

#18. In the middle of Little Italy little did we know that we riddled some middleman who didn't do diddily

Big Pun

#19. Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption.

Anna Seward

#20. I like to think of myself as the middleman between Fred Allen and Henny Youngman.

Milton Berle

#21. The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost.

Ben Carson

#22. Yes, well, let me tell you that if nobody had ever learned to quote, very few people would be in love with La Rochefoucauld. I bet you I don't know ten souls who read him without a middleman.

Dorothy Parker

#23. Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me what to write. That may sound romantic, but that's how it feels.

Neil Simon

#24. The publisher is a middleman, he calls the tune to which the whole rest of the trade dances; and he does so because he pays the piper.

Geoffrey Faber

#25. You might be tempted to skip the middleman and just leave this bit of code in Bicycle to begin with, but this push-everything-down-and-then-pull-some-things-up strategy is an important part of this refactoring. Many of the difficulties of inheritance are caused by a failure

Anonymous

#26. Nathan had never liked anger. It seemed a barbaric and undignified emotion. He knew it always masked fear or hurt, and had often wished everyone could simply be sensible enough to cut out the middleman.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#27. The Middleman: "So what's it going to be? Keep the secret or death?"
Wendy Watson: "What do you think?"
The Middleman: "Ma'am specificity is the soul of all good communication.

Javier Grillo-Marxuach

#28. I actually think that the president owes the Jews of Europe an apology. They deserve better from the President of the United States. Anti-semitism is on the rise, and somebody must stick up for them.

Dana Perino

#29. In open-source in general, the power lies in connecting the author of the software directly to users, eliminating the middleman.

Peter Fenton

#30. A newly elected representative quickly discovers that his job in government-aside from making new laws-is to act as a broker, middleman, special pleader and finagler.

William Greider

#31. Start your own revolution, cut out the middleman In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune But this is reality so give me some room So join the struggle while you may The Revolution is just a t-shirt away

Billy Bragg

#32. There are no techniques in politics.

Michael Ignatieff