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Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers - all of these fields, and more, should have at least a course in ethics as part of their degree requirements.

Jamais Cascio

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• If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Up
  • Work
  • Live

• End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • World
  • Friends
  • True

• Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Important
  • Game
  • Forever

• I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Me
  • Personality
  • Where

• The point of the future is that anything can happen.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Future
  • Point
  • Happen

• You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Money
  • Giving

• Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • People
  • Trying
  • Feet

• I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Experience
  • Technology
  • Films

• At one point, I was in a place where it didn't feel like it was going to happen, and I was feeling pretty down on myself. But I stuck to it, and now I have a hit comedy on my hands. You've got to keep plugging away at it. If you really believe in yourself, you can definitely make it happen.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Believe
  • Pretty
  • Feeling

• The great thing about fiction is you can fix things and make things better.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Great
  • Better
  • Fix

• I'm all those things, even though I don't want to, in the confuse depth of my fatal sensibility.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• I exempt you of being present in my idea of you.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Present

• My father was a Republican and he hated Roosevelt. And that's sort of been the battle of my life, I think. You have to understand I grew up a Republican conservative. I hated Castro. And I put my money where my mouth was because I went to war, but I understood pretty quickly that this was another place, another culture and we would never fit in there.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Life
  • Up
  • Money

• The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. There is in the nature of the infant that which is utterly unknown in the natures of the parents.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Nature
  • Parents
  • Unknown

• Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.

  

  Ira Glass

• Monogamy is so weird. Like when you know their name and stuff.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Weird

• Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species.

  

  Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Time
  • Space

• How are we to reconcile our supreme duty towards memory with the need to forget that is essential to life? No generation has had to confront this paradox with such urgency. The survivors wanted to communicate everything to the living: the victim's solitude and sorrow, the tears of mothers driven to madness, the prayers of the doomed beneath a fiery sky.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Life
  • Sky
  • Tears

• People don't like success.

  

  Beny Steinmetz
  • People
  • Success

• Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Alone
  • Pain
  • Practice

• For Spinoza, an ethics and a politics follow directly from and are immanent in metaphysics; the better one understands the universe in its complexity, in the connections that link each thing to every other, the more adequate is one’s ethical relation in and to it. An ethics does not spring directly from our understanding of the world. Rather, it comes from our affective bonds to and connections with other things in the world, relations that enable us to enhance or diminish forms of life.

  

  Elizabeth Grosz
  • Life
  • Universe
  • Politics

• We've got a yawl named the Phebe, which is named for a boat in a whaling journal my father and I edited. We keep a copy of the journal on board.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Father
  • Boat
  • Copy

• When we think of God, we are apt to think of Him in human form. In the Epiphanies of the Old Testament God revealed Himself to Joshua and others in human form. He puts Himself within the compass of our highest conception, in order that He may make Himself real to us in His love and sympathy and power.

  

  A. C. Dixon
  • God
  • Power
  • Conception

• Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers - all of these fields, and more, should have at least a course in ethics as part of their degree requirements.

  

  Jamais Cascio
  • Ethics