James Gleick Quotes
As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.

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I think that, as is the case offline, we should not be tolerant of hate speech, racist comments, or groups that promote hatred or intolerance in any shape or form.
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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At first, I found the music I was making really hard to find a home for. I felt like my attitude was really British, but not the actual sounds I was making. Back in 2003, when I made 'Galang,' there were no clubs that had an 'anything and everything' attitude.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.
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The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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I usually speak with all my drummers so that I write my songs with them in mind, and we'll have bass sounds, choir sounds, and then you can multi-task with all these orchestral sounds. Through the magic medium of technology, I can play all kinds of sounds - double bass and stuff.
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When you're on set, you have to perform and look the part.
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Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together.
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Next time a man tells you talk is cheap, ask him if he knows how much a session of Congress costs.
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We don't quite have the same comic book culture as America, but I would watch Spider-Man cartoons and X-Men cartoons and watch Bond as much as anyone on the planet.
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As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.