Esther Dyson Quotes
I believe in markets doing what they do well, which is to develop technology, and letting citizens do what they ideally do well, which is to set policy.
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.
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Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
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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 want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.
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My favorite toy as a kid was Legos. I loved building things, and that's what we're doing with SumZero.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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You cannot put 50 years of the Marvel universe into a movie. It's impossible.
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I love fashion - I really feel it's where I belong.
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I won't sing if I don't feel it, so there's always so much sadness and so much sentiment behind it all.
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When you're a fighter, and you're not doing good in your work, that happens - you lost the fight.
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There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind.
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Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.
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So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.
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Along with Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple, these companies are in a race to become our 'personal assistant.' They want to wake us in the morning, have their artificial intelligence software guide us through our days, and never quite leave our sides.
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There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.
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I kind of cherish at least the idea of Midwestern candor and openness. But I couldn't live there.
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Through educational programming, Jewish American History Month will help raise the awareness of a people, their history and contributions. It will help combat anti-Semitism, a phenomenon that is on the rise and that unfortunately still exists in our Nation.
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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When computers (people) are networked, their power multiplies geometrically. Not only can people share all that information inside their machines, but they can reach out and instantly tap the power of other machines (people), essentially making the entire network their computer.
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I believe in markets doing what they do well, which is to develop technology, and letting citizens do what they ideally do well, which is to set policy.
