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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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.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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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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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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Kids are really inspired to not just apply senses to robots and machines, but to try them on themselves.
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We had this budding baby band going and we hadn't reached that development we wanted to reach before we got signed to a major label.
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There was a time in the mid-'50s when the Philippines was in the same league as Japan economically and academics-wise.
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I'm a professional, and I have to always do my job.
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Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
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As long as they're willing to pay to prove it, I'm willing to let them.
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Artists' obsessions with technology are not new, but in the late aughts, the work tended to focus on the possibility of the medium, treating technology like a new tool rather than a sociopolitical framework.
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If I say, 'Hey, I'm Psy.' 'Psy?' 'The guy from the video on YouTube?' 'Oh.' I hate that. I've got to be more popular than the video. So I need to keep promoting myself.
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As technology tries to maintain its dizzying ascent, one dead weight has kept its altitude in check: the battery.
