Martin Rees Quotes

Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have.

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• China should be another United States from an economic standpoint. Beijing should be another Silicon Valley.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Economic
  • China

• Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination shrank.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • America
  • Imagination
  • Size

• I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Comedy
  • Childhood
  • Doing

• I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I did. I stopped acting in all things, and I wrote my first script, which was optioned a week after I finished it.

  

  Larry Bishop
  • Acting
  • Movies
  • Week

• I think the rigors of a TV schedule are brutal and 'Six Feet Under' wasn't a network schedule. We did 13 shows, we didn't do 22. I don't know how people do that. I really don't. I mean the shows are shorter, but wow, it's quite a discipline.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • People
  • Discipline
  • Feet

• 'Witches of East End' is certainly wild, and so are a lot of other shows these days. But 'Twin Peaks' still holds the gold medal for strange. I think we'll hang onto that for all of TV eternity!

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Think
  • End
  • Gold

• I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Walk
  • Slow
  • Backwards

• Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Work
  • Art
  • Mother

• I rewrite my books many times before submitting them, and after my editor takes a look I wind up rewriting some more! It's a good thing I learned at an early age to keep on trying. Stick to it, and eventually you'll get there.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• There is socialism in the family that conflicts with meritocracy. And that bothered me.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Family
  • Me
  • Socialism

• I never vote for anyone. I always vote against.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Always
  • Never
  • Vote

• Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
  • Live
  • Money
  • Style

• None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • Pain
  • Poetry
  • Tragedy

• There was a point when it all really took off and got quite overwhelming, even though I didn't realize it.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Point
  • Realize
  • Got

• I believe that I will represent this sport in the best light possible. I won't mess it up. I won't get myself in any trouble.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Light

• Religions grow out of the deepest needs of individuals sharing a common awakening, and are not created by 'engineers of the soul.'

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Soul

• To be human is to be suspended between danger and opportunity. ...The challenge of life is to choose wisely, from the enormous number of possible dangers, what's worth worrying about. It is also about choosing, from all the opportunities... always in the face of incomplete knowledge of the consequences.

  

  Lee Smolin
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Knowledge

• I want you to know, that I am happy for you I wish nothing but the best for you both An older version of me, Is she perverted like me? Would she go down on you in a theatre?

  

  Alanis Morissette
  • She
  • Happy
  • Wish

• This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.

  

  Tacitus
  • History
  • Words
  • Action

• Every individual is a person necessarily imbedded in a range of multiple relations, and therefore, no one is really independent in anything but a relative sense; no one is truly autonomous.

  

  David Novak
  • Independent

• I've been trying to be the best representative for my school, my family, and the USGA as I possibly could.

  

  Peter Uihlein
  • Trying
  • School
  • Family

• This fine young man had all the inclination to be a profligate of the first water, and only lacked the one good trait in the common catalogue of debauched vices - open-handedness - to be a notable vagabond. But there his griping and penurious habits stepped in; and as one poison will sometimes neutralise another, when wholesome remedies would not avail, so he was restrained by a bad passion from quaffing his full measure of evil, when virtue might have sought to hold him back in vain.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Poison
  • Young Man
  • Remedies

• Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have.

  

  Martin Rees