Steven Levy Quotes
As technology tries to maintain its dizzying ascent, one dead weight has kept its altitude in check: the battery.
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
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A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.
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I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.
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I sing all the time. But maybe nobody's hearing it, because I'm singing in my car or in my house or whatever. I don't need the roar of the crowd, and I don't need to hear cheers to feel validated.
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My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.
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If I am not above the law, nobody in this country can then claim to be above the law.
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I joke, but only half joke, that if you show up in an American hospital missing a finger, no one will believe you until they get a CAT scan, MRI and orthopedic consult.
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I believe the gun has no power at all.
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When I was a junior, boys were allowed to come visit me at the house. We could sit on the porch until about 8 o'clock at night; that's when it started getting dark. That was it.
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I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.
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If you you're in the United States, sometimes you can feel lazy and think we're so big we don't have to really know anything about other people.
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Bork has essentially given up. I'm not ready to throw in the towel.
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The last thing I think I am is perfect. I'm just trying to do the best job I can. I'm trying to be the best father I can to my kids. I'm trying to do the best job I can running my business.
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The butcher, baker, and candlestick maker have been around a lot longer than supermarkets and Wal-Mart.
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A film is a chain of very difficult decisions, and I think one of them is to choose an accurate cast.
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I know that if I'm going to take myself to where I want to go as an athlete and a person, I have to look at all my training options.
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Sometimes it seems like there's more footnotes than text. This isn't something we're proud of, and over time we'd like to see our footnotes steadily shrink.
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Shut your mouth! You dare speak his name with your unworthy lips, you dare besmirch it with your half-blood's tongue, you dare —
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I've always felt that technology companies have disrespected the content creation process, and the content creation people disrespect technology.
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Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.
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Because in the midst of happiness there is always a seed of unhappiness; it consumes itself like fire--it can't burn forever, sooner or later it must die; and this presentiment of the end destroys my happiness when it is at is height.
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As technology tries to maintain its dizzying ascent, one dead weight has kept its altitude in check: the battery.
