Steve Jobs

I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore.

American Businessman

John Pomfret

Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't really happen the way you want it to.

American Journalist

Nick Kroll

Meeting someone you admire, and then that person's like, 'I'm a fan of your work' - it's a really neat feeling.

American Actor

Stephen King

And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.

Author

Kate Garraway

Don't get me wrong, I think it's important to keep things clean. It's just the neatness I struggle with.

English Journalist

Oliver North

I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea.

American Soldier

Joshua Jackson

I'm of the opinion that life doesn't always tie up neatly at the end of the episode.

J. J. Watt

It's pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.

American Athlete

Drew Barrymore

Families in real life don't tend to resolve things neatly.

American Actress

Zoe Lister-Jones

Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.

Using 'neat' suggests you approve of the tidiness and organization; it's a compliment.

Positive Impression

Pair 'neat' with 'and' to stress tidiness, as in 'neat and tidy' or 'neat and clean'.

Emphasis with 'and'

'Neat' shows appreciation for someone's skillful and efficient way of doing something.

Admiration for Skill

When a solution or idea is called 'neat', it often means it's elegantly simple.

Appreciate Simplicity

In bar settings, 'neat' refers to a drink served without ice or mixers.

Undiluted Drinks

Don't confuse 'neat' with 'straight up'; 'neat' is just the spirit, no chilling or extras.

Confusion with 'Straight Up'

When talking about animals, 'neat' can mean purebred, especially with cattle.

Breed Purity

The term is considered outdated in agriculture but can appear in historical contexts.

Historical Use

Using 'neat' as a noun for cattle is archaic and mostly found in historical texts.

Archaic Term

Encounter 'neat' as a noun in classic literature or historical documents, not modern language.

Cultural Literature

 to tell yourself a certain story about what I'm doing, and this only works because we are story-forming creatures, which means we do this every day. We go out into this complex and subtle world full of a complex and subtle people like you and me, Allan, and we reduce them to these neat characters that fit whatever story we're telling ourselves,

Mentalism, mind reading...

 by looking at those mites we can figure out stories about ourselves and that would be the really neat thing because they evolved super rapidly so one of the main goals of this study is that we are trying to get a lot of mites from different populations of people around the world because we're really

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 Each has its own unique history and characteristic pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammatical structures. But the dividing line between varieties is murky. Human language, in all its cross-pollinating, ever-evolving glory, naturally resists the impulse to sort it into neat buckets.

What makes a language......

 that love doesn't really work like that. Human emotion isn't neatly ordered and rational and easily predictable. But I also know that that doesn't mean that mathematics hasn't got something that it can offer us, because, love, as with most of life, is full of patterns

The mathematics of love...

 Entropy also increases and helps the reaction along because the neat, organized log of wood is now converted into randomly moving water vapor and carbon dioxide. The energy shed by this exothermic reaction powers the endothermic reaction of cooking your dinner.

What triggers a chemical...

 Later on I said certain things -- the players, if we were leaving for somewhere, had to be neat and clean. There was a time when I made them wear jackets and shirts and ties. Then I saw our chancellor coming to school in denims and turtlenecks,

The difference between...

 small community when civilization is no longer providing for you well I think a very neat example of the problems it would face here are given in an essay by Leonard read could I pencil now the eye pencil isn't some gadget coming out from

How to rebuild the world...

 dr angela horner is the world's leading expert in ferret locomotion ferrets are really neat it's almost as though you have an animal in liquid form they have a really well adapted body design to move rapidly through a tunnel

Why are Ferrets So...

 to a place in society where they belong, and I think it'll also be impossible to stop war, if we don't understand how that mechanism works. The problem is that war does not have a simple, neat truth, one simple, neat truth.

Sebastian Junger: Why...

 Normally when you go to a wildlife place, you expect to see you know wildlife, everything cleared neat and tidy, but there were lots of plastics and broken bottles and pieces of cars and filters of the engines of the cars.

Neat

Clean, well arranged, orderly.

Often appears as...

Done with or demonstrating skill or efficiency.

Often appears as...

(of a drink, especially an alcoholic one) undiluted.

Often appears as...

Specifically of cattle: not mixed with any other breed.

Usage tips

A cow or bull.

Usage tips

Positive Impression

Emphasis with 'and'

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