George Dyson Quotes
Last time I checked, the digital universe was expanding at the rate of five trillion bits per second in storage and two trillion transistors per second on the processing side.
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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I've always wanted to be Batman, but I don't naturally tend towards Batman. I tend towards Robin, but I did get to play Superman.
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What you need is one black dress I call Plan B. It doesn't have to be fabulous, it just looks good, covers up the problems and is neutral enough for dinner, business, a date, a funeral. You don't overwear it, you don't overwash it, because the Plan B is - gold.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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I'm extremely well recognized in Korea just because of what I do on the ice, and there is a lack of that in Canada because hockey is our sport and it will be for eternity.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
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Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
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People get so trapped by their technology now. Real life is so much better. I love talking with my mother and father. We really enjoy staying in and making a meal together. I'm very close with all four of my older sisters as well.
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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The language of the heroic is something that has evolved over time.
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All the time, he hoped they would understand that his arrogance masked only shyness-or did he hope that it was his shyness which masked arrogance? He did not know.Who could presume to know? The one quality holds much of the other. Both refuse to come forward and share.
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I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?'
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Without a rope there is no fear beacuse to fall is unthinkable.
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Last time I checked, the digital universe was expanding at the rate of five trillion bits per second in storage and two trillion transistors per second on the processing side.
