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.Esther Dyson
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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.
M. H. Abrams -
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.
Valerie Plame -
I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.
Fatima Siad -
My favorite toy as a kid was Legos. I loved building things, and that's what we're doing with SumZero.
Cameron Winklevoss -
The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
Aaron Lazar -
I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.
Florence King
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
Sallust -
You cannot put 50 years of the Marvel universe into a movie. It's impossible.
Edgar Wright -
I won't sing if I don't feel it, so there's always so much sadness and so much sentiment behind it all.
La India -
When you're a fighter, and you're not doing good in your work, that happens - you lost the fight.
Rafael dos Anjos -
There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind.
Xenophanes -
So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.
Donna Leon
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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.
Franklin Foer -
There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.
Bjork -
I kind of cherish at least the idea of Midwestern candor and openness. But I couldn't live there.
James Polshek -
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.
Jan Schakowsky -
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
Louis D. Brandeis -
Obviously I struck gold with 'Deadwood.' No pun intended.
Jim Beaver
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But here I am today recording this and I'm in the studio with all the others on a clean mic. It's extraordinary, the actor's found a way of doing it for himself.
John Leeson -
Unforgiveness is like drinking poison yourself and waiting for the other person to die.
Marianne Williamson -
When I took over the ministry for science and technology, our weather systems were in shambles. Nobody believed in the IMD. Nothing was in digital mode. I changed all that. We got automatic rain gauges, automatic weather stations, Doppler radars.
Kapil Sibal -
When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this would be.
Matt Mullenweg -
I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.
Lois McMaster -
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.
Esther Dyson