We never set up Yandex to imitate what others were doing. We've been in the business longer than other search engines and have created many original products.
One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life.
I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.
You can't imitate; all our faces are constructed differently... and the vocal cords; otherwise, we'd all sound alike. I don't think anybody should ever teach by imitating.
We didn't know about the rest of the world. We just knew the pictures that we saw on TV, and it was so different that we wanted to try to imitate that, to a certain extent.
I was pretty young when my folks were playing those kinds of records, '70s rock and psychedelic stuff. So I just remember those songs being synonymous with my childhood, and I was always trying to imitate them on piano.
I grew up a huge Roy Orbison fan. He had such a crazy range. And I grew up listening to old jazz, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone. I remember trying to imitate female jazz singers because I had a higher range.
I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet... we will be successful.
I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.
I'm not trying to emulate or imitate. But I do believe that I embody that spirit from Robert Johnson on up.
