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William Collins's Profile

Brief about William Collins: By info that we know William Collins was born at 1970-01-01. And also William Collins is English Poet.

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Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

Tags: Fault, Mistrust, Superior

Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead.

Tags: Dead, Life, Self

By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung.

Tags: Fairy, Hands, Unseen

How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!

Tags: Brave, Country, Sleep

I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.

Tags: Him, Humor, Serious

In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong.

Tags: Numbers, Pure, Strong

Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.

Tags: Humor, Mean, Poetry

When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry.

Tags: Her, Work, Wrong

Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.

Tags: Democracy, Feminism, Words

It's easy to talk to people over the Web, but it's not very easy to trigger transactions. That's the thing we set out to fix with Stripe.

Tags: Easy, Fix, Talk

Marketplaces by their nature tend to grow faster than most other companies.

Tags: Grow, Nature, Tend

Our idea with starting Stripe was to build better payments technology for people building things on the web.

Tags: Building, Idea, Technology

Part of Stripe's vision is linking people better on the web.

Tags: Linking, Vision, Web

Stripe really did come about because we were really appalled by how hard it was to charge for things online.

Tags: Charge, Hard, Online

Auctomatic was a compressed start-up experience, going from start to launch to acquisition in under a year. We spent a long time building the product before getting our first customer, whereas with Stripe we made sure we had paying customers from the very start.

Tags: Experience, Start, Time

Coming from Ireland, it's quite hard to do a startup because you're culturally so far away from what everyone else is doing. In the Bay Area, it's much easier. It's the equivalent of an actor or actress moving to Hollywood.

Tags: Away, Hard, Moving

I think a lot of people learn to code messing around with things while in secondary school. And for me, it started up as a hobby and a plaything, and I just became more curious over time.

Tags: Learn, School, Time

My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an electrical engineer, and my mom is in microbiology.

Tags: Dad, Mom, School

One of the really fascinating areas is marketplaces that take advantage of mobile devices. Ridesharing is the obvious example, but that's just the start of it, of selling goods and services with lightweight mobile apps.

Tags: Advantage, Example, Start

Stripe is building payment infrastructure for the Web, so we make it easy to accept credit cards online. Before Stripe, the way you'd do this is using the legacy banking structure. It was slow, it was complex, it was expensive. It had this very chilling effect on e-commerce.

Tags: Accept, Building, Easy
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