Milner Quotes

#1. Colour is, on the evidence of language alone, very bound up with the feelings.

Marion Milner

#2. There is coming an era for people with a mathematical state of mind

Yuri Milner

#3. When you have two notes from two different performances Auto-Tuned, it sounds like a car horn. And then you add harmonies, and it starts to sound like baby seals honking. - Tom Lord-Alge on Auto-Tune

Greg Milner

#4. You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge.

Yuri Milner

#5. Facebook is a platform inside a platform.

Yuri Milner

#6. The problem is that modern fundamental physics is so far from you and me. The mathematics has become so much more complicated that you need at least 10 years to understand it. Fundamental physics has advanced so far from the understanding of most people that there is really a big disconnect.

Yuri Milner

#7. Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.

Yuri Milner

#8. Love is not getting, but giving. It is sacrifice. And sacrifice is glorious!

Marion Milner

#9. The company that creates one global social graph will be very important going forward. It will be Facebook, with maybe 2-3 local social networks able to sustain competition long term.

Yuri Milner

#10. Praised be St John, the glorified of God! Lord, grant me the prayers of St John, disciple and friend whom thou lovest, apostle of love. Thy love, forever, eternal, that my faith may become as complete, as flaming and tranquil, as his, and pierce as deep and speak as simply in the spirit.

Eric Milner-White

#11. Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.

Yuri Milner

#12. I'm trying to learn from various corners of the world.

Yuri Milner

#13. Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences.

Yuri Milner

#14. We've only made three investments: Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga.

Yuri Milner

#15. Once you assume your right to interfere in other people's problems they become in some ways more of a worry than your own, for with your own you can at least do what you think best, but other people always show such a persistent tendency to do the wrong thing.

Marion Milner

#16. There is huge demand for artificial intelligence technologies.

Yuri Milner

#17. Garlic is the catsup of intellectuals.

John Milner

#18. Social is a better way to interact with digital world. It is better than search. Implications for ... everything. Total change.

Yuri Milner

#19. I want to feel myself part of things, of the great drift and swirl: not cut off, missing things, like being sent to bed early as a child, the blinds being drawn while the sun and cheerful voices came through the chink from the garden.

Marion Milner

#20. The largest newspaper in the United States is only reaching 1 percent of population. We are kind of assuming that 'Wall Street Journal,' 'USA Today,' and other newspapers are very important. Yes, they're extremely important, but only to 1 percent of the population on a daily basis.

Yuri Milner

#21. Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.

Yuri Milner

#22. Russia is one of the places where significant presence of social networks are driven by domestic players right now.

Yuri Milner

#23. My wife and two children traveled with me on locations all last season.

Martin Milner

#24. Big Internet companies on average are capable of generating revenue of $1 million per employee, and that compares to 10 to 20 percent of that which is normally generated by traditional offline businesses of comparable size.

Yuri Milner

#25. Facebook is at the forefront. It's the company that can fundamentally change the way information is being exchanged and processed. It can be the basis for artificial intelligence to develop over time.

Yuri Milner

#26. The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.

Marion Milner

#27. The hardware and the software used in the Breakthrough project will be compatible with other telescopes around the world, so they too can search for intelligent life.

Yuri Milner

#28. I want to draw and study a few things closely by feeling, not thinking.

Marion Milner

#29. Perhaps if one really knew when one was happy one would know the things that were necessary in one's life.

Marion Milner

#30. My background is in theoretical physics, and it's something very close to my heart.

Yuri Milner

#31. Every weekend he'd have me come down to work on Dragnet, which by now was on television as well as radio.

Martin Milner

#32. My main worry is that after a certain point you become so identified with a character and a series that you might not be able to get work when your show goes off the air.

Martin Milner

#33. We host some trips all over the world. We go to Alaska. We go to Mexico. We're going to Venezuela in December. We've been to Russia, all in conjunction with the radio show.

Martin Milner

#34. I came to the conclusion then that "continual mindfulness" ... must mean, not a sergeantmajor-like drilling of thoughts, but a continual readiness to accept whatever came.

Marion Milner

#35. I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.

Yuri Milner

#36. I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.

Yuri Milner

#37. Google never knew how successful key words would be.

Yuri Milner

#38. I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt.

Yuri Milner

#39. I have no complaints on any level. I'm pretty happy about the way everything has turned out.

Martin Milner

#40. It's not about revenues: The fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line.

Yuri Milner

#41. Science is one of a handful of things that defines us as a very special species. It is amazing how far we have been able to get and how accurate our predictions are. I think understanding how the universe was born is very important. It really gives us a perspective on many things.

Yuri Milner

#42. The polling of Internet users shows that friends recommendations are the most reliable driver behind purchasing decisions. Right now that market is largely untapped. Facebook and other social networks can allow that to happen.

Yuri Milner

#43. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.

Yuri Milner

#44. Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about the universe and how the world came into being. It's very remote from your daily life and mine, and yet it defines us as human beings.

Yuri Milner

#45. Three days a week and I'm home at the ranch in Fallbrook with my avocados.

Martin Milner

#46. It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.

Yuri Milner

#47. I did radio back in the era when we did radio drama.

Martin Milner

#48. Having covered some half a hundred cities, towns, villages, and wide spots in the road during the last tow years, George and I fairly wallowed in the comfort of our own home base.

Martin Milner

#49. We also have 2 horses, but they're not allowed in the house.

Martin Milner

#50. It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.

Marion Milner

#51. Happiness not only needs no justification, but it is also the only final test of whether what I am doing is right for me. Only of course happiness is not the same as pleasure; it includes the pain of losing as well as the pleasure of finding.

Marion Milner

#52. I was never a celebrity - just a working actor.

Martin Milner

#53. I have invested in four social networks. More than any other. But that's in Russia and Poland.

Yuri Milner

#54. There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.

Yuri Milner

#55. I have this ratio that if you divide age of entrepreneur by market cap of company. For Facebook it's one. Every year of his life Zuckerberg has been making $1 billion for investors.

Yuri Milner

#56. I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?

Yuri Milner

#57. Actors really should be tramps.

Martin Milner

#58. Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.

Marion Milner

#59. When you have a few billion people connected with screens, not voice ... screens are important. You can transmit a thousand times more information.

Yuri Milner

#60. Like a fierce wind roaring high up in the bare branches of trees, a wave of passion came over me, aimless but surging ... I suppose it's lust, but it's awful and holy like thunder and lightning and the wind.

Marion Milner

#61. There is no overt rivalry among our children.

Martin Milner

#62. I'm just focused on exploring new opportunities.

Yuri Milner

#63. On other shows, guys can't wait to put 3000 miles between them during hiatus.

Martin Milner

#64. You have to travel globally today to know what's going on and maintain an edge.

Yuri Milner

#65. We monitor close to 50 companies globally that can be potential investment opportunities. I'd like to see DST as a significant global investment company in the Internet arena.

Yuri Milner

#66. I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Marion Milner

#67. I even played Jack Webb's partner on the radio version of Dragnet for a while.

Martin Milner

#68. The aim of the painting is that the eye should find out what it likes.

Marion Milner

#69. I love talk and I love fishing. I'm having a ball.

Martin Milner

#70. One of the companies that we've invested in is called Facebook. In only two years, between 2009 and 2011, the information exchanged between people increased 28 times. And that cannot be explained by new people joining Facebook.

Yuri Milner

#71. I opened my mouth to exclaim about the puppies. They were beauty and joy and innocence made of flesh and fur, in an ugly time when fear and sadness and mistrust hung over the world like a sickly green tornado sky.

Kelly Milner Halls

#72. St John, on Christ's bosom, pray for me in the days of my discipleship, in the house of my faith, in the hour of my death.

Eric Milner-White

#73. It seems the farther away we are from Hollywood, the better the ratings.

Martin Milner

#74. It's not how much something's worth today, it's what it's worth in five or 10 years.

Yuri Milner

#75. [There is a real need] to search out the real Church from age to age,... indeed a work of much labour and difficulty... The ore is precious, but it must be extracted from incredible heaps of Ecclesiastical rubbish.

Joseph Milner