James Gleick Quotes
The Fifties and Sixties were years of unreal optimism about weather forecasting. Newspapers and magazines were filled with hope for weather science, not just for prediction but for modification and control. Two technologies were maturing together: the digital computer and the space satellite.
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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We didn't gel with Poison and the Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi was the best of the pop metal bands, but we never fit in with the hair metal stuff. We were never as hip as the Chili Peppers. We were in the middle.
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The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.
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When we first started our internet company, 'China Pages', in 1995, and we were just making home pages for a lot of Chinese companies. We went to the big owners, the big companies, and they didn't want to do it. We go to state-owned companies, and they didn't want to do it. Only the small and medium companies really want to do it.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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I've worked so hard for so long, and everyone's reaction has made me feel like... almost like they trust me, which is just a wonderful feeling. It pushes me to write things better and better.
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I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.
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Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable).
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I don't ever want to feel complacent.
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Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.
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Obviously, I don't want to minimize the patriarchal nature of our media, our government and our culture as a whole. But I think it's our refusal as women to own our power that is our biggest problem, both individually and collectively. The linchpin that holds the current system in place is the slumber of women.
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I don't like spoilers. I don't like things being spoiled.
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I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.
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I like having the space of my own project.
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The Fifties and Sixties were years of unreal optimism about weather forecasting. Newspapers and magazines were filled with hope for weather science, not just for prediction but for modification and control. Two technologies were maturing together: the digital computer and the space satellite.
