Esther Dyson Quotes
We invented our computers in the '80s. We networked them together in the '90s. Now we're giving them eyes, ears and sensory organs. And we're asking them to observe and manipulate the world on our behalf.
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We take the show very seriously, but we don't take ourselves seriously.
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.
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The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
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To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed.
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I don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds.
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And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.
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I love brawling, but I'm a smart fighter.
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I just know what I want, and I'm willing to butt heads with folks to get it.
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In Beverly Hills, around 3 P.M. on Bedford Drive, a strange rite occurs. All the men and women who have had facial surgery leave the their surgeons and walk up and down the street bandaged like mummies in Prada, waiting for their loved ones to pick them up.
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As teenagers, a lot of us just did not want much to do with Arabic culture - we looked to the West.
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I want to keep Flume kind of experimental, weird, melodic, pretty.
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When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.
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Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
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You've got to validate every day. There are those who just put a stamp on it and say, "This is gonna be a good day and I'm not gonna let anything else make it a bad day."
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You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'
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At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most, because they are what shaped us. We have grown to be who we are around them, as around a stake.
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LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
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Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government.
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We invented our computers in the '80s. We networked them together in the '90s. Now we're giving them eyes, ears and sensory organs. And we're asking them to observe and manipulate the world on our behalf.
