John Lanchester Quotes

Soap prevented more deaths than penicillin. That’s technology, not science.

John Lanchester

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• It is always great to see technology leaders like Ginni Rometty, Marissa Mayer, and Meg Whitman breaking through as a new generation of leaders.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Great
  • Technology
  • Always

• I don't drink at lunchtime because I'm very weak at alcohol like most Asians.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Drink
  • Alcohol
  • Weak

• Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Art
  • Science
  • Light

• I've always loved massive worlds, whether in fantasy or science fiction. I like the idea of making my own rules as well as utilizing everything that I love or inspires me. It's very freeing to know you can write a story that can be as big as your own imagination.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Science
  • Like
  • Imagination

• I've finished 12th standard from Poddar International and enrolled for B.A. in political science in Cambridge University, London. It's a correspondence course, and I'll go to London for my exams once a year. That way, I can devote more time to films.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Time
  • Science
  • Political

• I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • May
  • Kids

• Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• Tokyo in the late 1960s seemed to be like one of the futures that science fiction presents. Here was the proto- super-technology of the future, electronically, robotically, blahblahblah, intercut with traditional Japanese cultural patterns, Shinto patterns.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Future
  • Science
  • Technology

• Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.

  

  Randy Newman
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• I've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of a nerdy family activity.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Family
  • Together
  • Science

• I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Live
  • Today
  • Technology

• Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.

  

  Walter Reisch
  • Live
  • Science
  • Earth

• Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Trying
  • Science
  • Looking

• The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Expression
  • Played
  • Relation

• I've had young women come to me and say that before they watched 'Voyager' it didn't really occur to them that they could be successful in a higher position in the field of science; girls going to MIT, girls pursuing astrophysics with a view to a career in NASA.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Women
  • Career
  • Science

• I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • People
  • Science
  • Interesting

• We need to question technology to insure that markets continue to perform their fundamental purposes.

  

  Bart Chilton
  • Question
  • Technology
  • Need

• What science fiction does is take what might be possible someday and examine what might happen if it were - the drawbacks and the positive things.

  

  Gardner Dozois
  • Science
  • Positive
  • Possible

• Drill everything, mine everything, roll back regulations, tweak the science, expedite permits. Sound familiar? The Republicans offer up more 19th-Century solutions to our 21st-Century energy problems.

  

  Jeff Goodell
  • Up
  • Science
  • Energy

• For the purposes of the play, it was perfect to be able to use that and the stresses and strains that there were. At the end of the play, the mother realizes the terrible things she had done.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Mother
  • Perfect
  • Play

• It was an amazing adventure, it was my dream to be in an American musical... I really hope you are going to love what you are going to see.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • American
  • Hope
  • Dream

• In a sense, what's happening is that the unconscious mind is a luxury the human species cannot afford at this point in our dilemma, and so the unconscious mind is simply rising into consciousness by being hardwired into this global infrastructure.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Mind
  • Humans
  • Consciousness

• Soap prevented more deaths than penicillin. That’s technology, not science.

  

  John Lanchester
  • Science
  • Technology