Top 100 Yuri Quotes
#1. Like that guy could make Yuri do anything he doesn't want to," Mikhail scoffed. "Yuri could break him in half if he wanted."
"Or fold him in half," I offered. "Which is probably more along the lines of what Chuluun was thinking when he asked for permission.
Mary Calmes
#2. The joy of seeing Yuri Gagarin flying in space is only superseded by the joy of a good penalty save.
Lev Yashin
#3. A Caligula, or a Yuri Vorbarra, can rule a long time, while the best men hesitate to do what is necessary to stop him, and the worst ones take advantage.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#4. Going to Mars is a bunch of baby steps, and it started off with the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin.
Scott Kelly
#5. Since Yuri Gagarin and Al Shepard's epoch flights in 1961, all space missions have been flown only under large, expensive government efforts. By contrast, our program involves a few, dedicated individuals who are focused entirely on making spaceflight affordable.
Burt Rutan
#6. You made quite an impression on the old man, by the way."
"You mean Uncle Yuri?"
"He said he'd marry you. If you weren't related. And if he were fifty years younger. Et cetera. Et cetera."
"That a lot of very important 'ifs', Jacks.
Gabrielle Zevin
#7. British astronomer royal Richard Woolley, who in 1956 said, "All this talk about space travel is utter bilge, really."10 Yuri Gagarin was the first human to orbit the earth just five years later.
Massimo Pigliucci
#8. Bolor-Erdene urged Dinah to address her as Bo. She was obviously of Far Eastern stock, and yet there was something in her eyes and cheekbones that did not look precisely Chinese. Dinah's preliminary googling had already told her that Bo was Mongolian. Yuri
Neal Stephenson
#9. This is the band Radical Posture, and my name is Alexei Yuri Gagarin Siege of Stalingrad Glorious Five-Year Plan Sputnik Pravda Moscow Dynamo Back Four Balowski. Me Dad was a bit of a Communist, know what I mean?
Alexei Sayle
#10. Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.
Alexei Sayle
#11. There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.
John L. Phillips
#12. With each success the ability to change is reduced. My longtime friend and coach Grandmaster Yuri Dokhoian, aptly compared it to being dipped in bronze. Each victory added another coat.
Garry Kasparov
#13. Yuri Gagarin had a much more reliable and safe ship than I do. And Soviet ships were death traps.
Andy Weir
#14. I was thinking," Yuri said, licking blood from the corner of his mouth, "that since I bothered to save the world, people might shut up during movies.
Katie Kennedy
#15. Sorry, Tim," Yuri said, regret in his voice. "Normally I would not push you around, but I must because you have become such a pansy.
S.J. Kincaid
#16. He'll never let you leave his side again."
"And there is comfort in knowing that, as there will be for Yuri. It is a great thing to be needed by another.
Mary Calmes
#17. 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
#18. Only a good bishop can be sacrificed, a bad bishop can only be lost.
Yuri Razuvaev
#19. 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
#20. There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.
Yuri Milner
#21. I have invested in four social networks. More than any other. But that's in Russia and Poland.
Yuri Milner
#22. 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
#23. There is one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is, 'How do we arm the other eleven?'
Yuri Orlov
#24. 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
#25. Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.
Yuri Andropov
#26. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
Yuri Milner
#27. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. I want to become a person that is frank and pure with a healthy energy, a person with an unpredictable charm who acts accordingly regardless of what clothes I'm put in.
Kwon Yuri
#32. The path of a cosmonaut is not an easy, triumphant march to glory. You have to get to know the meaning not just of joy but also of grief, before being allowed in the spacecraft cabin.
Yuri Gagarin
#33. Better to scratch the wound than bandage it: those who lose a child shouldn't be consoled; parents die to make room for their kids, not the other way around. He wasn't being cruel, he just thought a gash that deep had to be respected, not swaddled over with cuddles.
Yuri Herrera
#34. I am watching the Earth. The visibility is good. I feel well and cheerful. The machine is functioning normally.
Yuri Gagarin
#35. The United States of America is a nation where people are not united because of those three glaring frailties: racism, injustices and inequities.
Yuri Kochiyama
#36. It's not how much something's worth today, it's what it's worth in five or 10 years.
Yuri Milner
#37. Poetic language features an iconic rather than a predominantly conventional relationship of form and content in which all language (and cultural) elements, variant as well as invariant, may be involved in the expression of the content.", "Analysis of the Poetic Text.
Yuri Lotman
#38. Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or system.
Yuri Lotman
#39. Have you ever seen a chess article without a brilliant example of the author's own play? 'Silly question,' you will say. Quite.
Yuri Razuvaev
#40. 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
#41. Responsible statesmen have only one choice - to do everything possible to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. Any other position is short-sighted; more so, it is suicidal.
Yuri Andropov
#42. A proof only becomes a proof after the social act of "accepting it as a proof".
Yuri Manin
#43. I didn't wake up and decide to become an activist. But you couldn't help notice the inequities, the injustices. It was all around you.
Yuri Kochiyama
#44. Nothing will stop us. The road to the stars is steep and dangerous. But we're not afraid ... Space flights can't be stopped. This isn't the work of one man or even a group of men. It is a historical process which mankind is carrying out in accordance with the natural laws of human development.
Yuri Gagarin
#45. 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
#46. You have to travel globally today to know what's going on and maintain an edge.
Yuri Milner
#47. I'm just focused on exploring new opportunities.
Yuri Milner
#48. 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
#49. We can only shine the brightest as SNSD when we stand on one stage as nine ...
Kwon Yuri
#50. Looking at the earth from afar you realize it is too small for conflict and just big enough for co-operation.
Yuri Gagarin
#51. Malicious attacks on the Soviet Union produce a natural feeling of indignation.
Yuri Andropov
#52. Most likely, logic is capable of justifying mathematics to no greater extent than biology is capable of justifying life.
Yuri Manin
#53. My background is in theoretical physics, and it's something very close to my heart.
Yuri Milner
#54. greed and anger is for those who never have enough. Fear is for those who are afraid to lose. Pride is for the fearful. Ignorance is for the weak. Love is for the strong at heart.
Yuri Spilny
#55. Social is a better way to interact with digital world. It is better than search. Implications for ... everything. Total change.
Yuri Milner
#56. Circling the earth in the orbital spaceship I marvelled at the beauty of our planet. People of the world!! Let us safeguard and enhance this beauty-not destroy it
Yuri Gagarin
#58. People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back.
Yuri Kochiyama
#59. The most important thing today is to stop US wars.
Yuri Kochiyama
#60. I lived in San Pedro, California, which is, you know, on the west side of California, and it's where many, many Japanese lived.
Yuri Kochiyama
#61. Don't become too narrow. Live fully. Meet all kinds of people. You'll learn something from everyone. Follow what you feel in your heart.
Yuri Kochiyama
#62. There is huge demand for artificial intelligence technologies.
Yuri Milner
#63. When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back away in fear. I told them, don't be afraid, I am a Soviet like you, who has descended from space and I must find a telephone to call Moscow!
Yuri Gagarin
#64. We've only made three investments: Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga.
Yuri Milner
#65. Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences.
Yuri Milner
#66. I'm trying to learn from various corners of the world.
Yuri Milner
#67. If I can meet you someday,
If you are waiting for me,
Then my long, long journey was not so bad after all.
Yuri Kimura
#68. Our ultimate objective in learning about anything is to try to create and develop a more just society.
Yuri Kochiyama
#69. I'm not ugly, but I'm far from pretty.
Kwon Yuri
#70. If all those people are getting wet to welcome me, surely the least I can do is get wet too!
Yuri Gagarin
#71. People are fools, she said. They spend their whole lives getting stuck with pins and act like nothing's wrong, they just leave them there, and then one day they go and scratch someone's eyes out.
Yuri Herrera
#72. 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
#73. You are a door, not the one who walks through.
Yuri Herrera
#74. 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
#75. Whether I scare some people or not, I don't give a hoot. If you're not scared by now, nothing can scare you.
Yuri Bezmenov
#76. All families had started off in some mysterious waay: to repopulate the earth, or by accident, or by force, or out of boredom; and it's all a mystery what each will become.
Yuri Herrera
#77. 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
#79. Facebook is a platform inside a platform.
Yuri Milner
#80. Certain supplementary restrictions imposed on the text compel us to perceive it as poetry. As soon as one assigns a given text to the category of poetry, the number of meaningful elements in it acquires the capacity to grow and the system of their combinations also becomes more complex.
Yuri Lotman
#81. A proof becomes a proof after the social act of accepting it as a proof. This is true of mathematics as it is of physics, linguistics, and biology.
Yuri Manin
#82. 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
#84. There is coming an era for people with a mathematical state of mind
Yuri Milner
#86. I looked and looked but I didn't see God.
[Speaking about, in 1961, becoming the first human to enter space.]
Yuri Gagarin
#87. The movement is contagious, and the people in it are the ones who pass on the spirit.
Yuri Kochiyama
#88. I don't think there will ever be a time when people will stop wanting to bring about change.
Yuri Kochiyama
#89. When you're in a black group, you have to keep in mind you're not black. You just have to be sensitive. We have to be appreciative that the black nationalist struggle is a nationalist struggle.
Yuri Kochiyama
#90. 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
#91. I supply guns to every army but the Salvation Army.
Yuri Orlov
#92. Life is not what you alone make it. Life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered it. We are all part of one another.
Yuri Kochiyama
#93. To put it simply, we first explain what we are talking about, and then explain why what we are saying is true (pace Bertrand Russell).
Yuri Manin
#94. 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
#95. Google never knew how successful key words would be.
Yuri Milner
#96. 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
#97. It is impossible to ignore a highly important factor of the chess struggle - psychology.
Yuri Averbakh
#98. I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
Yuri Milner
#99. One must say bluntly that it is an unattractive sight when, with a view to smearing the Soviet people, leaders of such a country as the United States resort to what almost amounts to obscenities alternating with hypocritical preaching about morals and humanism.
Yuri Andropov
#100. Means are more important than ends in the civilized struggle for ideas. Our dreams may be the loveliest on earth, but if we wade through blood and terror to achieve them, we will arrive to find ourselves destroyed. Don't kill.
Yuri Orlov
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