Steve Mann Quotes
The use of the wearable computer changes with each person. When this device is your way of seeing, or a seeing aid, it's how you see the world. When you use it as a memory aid, it is your brain.
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The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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You can't choose up sides on a round world.
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When you're building a show from the ground up, there are no answers or wrong move, because there's no bible.
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I didn't have a sweet tooth, but I liked butter, and I liked sauces, and I liked wine... and curry... and cheeses.
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Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.
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When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel I existed myself.
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I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.
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A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
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People book me because of the songs I write, not because of the sets that I play, per se... I'm sure I'm going to be moving to a laptop really soon, but I was one of the last guys to let the vinyl go. I was crying. In my room, I still have thousands of records. I still pull them out and play them all the time.
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Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.
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Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now.
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I just keep happy and help the team when I get an opportunity.
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The only way I see the world now is through coming out of and growing up and living in Somalia. In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all - it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras.
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The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
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I could probably recite just about every song that was on country radio between 1990 and 2000.
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The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.
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I know my music probably isn't going to matter to the public after I die, but that doesn't mean I don't have something to offer.
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Scotland is about layering. The weather changes every 10 minutes.
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I don't think I'm capable of making radical changes, but over a period of four or five years you can perceive very big changes, and they seem rather small at the time.
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It's funny how being an actor forces you to do things or go places that you wouldn't ordinarily.
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You can't manage time, you actually only manage what you do during time. So the management issue is not so much about time, it's more about how do you manage your focus, how do you manage your actions and your activities in terms of what you do.
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The use of the wearable computer changes with each person. When this device is your way of seeing, or a seeing aid, it's how you see the world. When you use it as a memory aid, it is your brain.
