William S. Burroughs Quotes
Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.
Quotes to Explore
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I am in a traditional financial services business - but we at Fidelity can see that the evolution of technology is setting our industry up for disruption. What if this technology could do for the transfer of value what the Internet did for the transfer of information?
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I always get sick of these conversations where people are so obsessed with pixels, with high definition, and even with technology in general. I find it just dull and heartless. And so I wanted to use only the worst machines.
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With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless.
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When e-commerce companies build scale, cost comes down. Companies that can handle scale and reduce costs over time will win. Margins will come from reducing costs over time and not by increasing prices. Technology is the answer at large scale.
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I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.
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The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.
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The two great aims of industrialism - replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy - seem close to fulfillment.
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There's a lot more to see when you're playing and because of the advances in technology it makes room for all kinds of new characters.
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The idea that I should become president seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.
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I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.
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Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
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Media and technology are our greatest assets. And yet, they are our most undervalued and underused assets. Now when I say that, people look at me like I'm crazy because every young person we know in the world is never without media, ever.
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I'm a pretty easygoing person, and it bleeds into the music. Even if I'm writing the most personal song, it's not going to come out totally serious; there's always a little tongue in the cheek.
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You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.
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People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.
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I used to like humorous people in the past, but these days, I like serious people more.
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If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms.
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Nobody gets any fun out of baseball any more. I guess a kid's crazy not to be serious about it when he's drawing down $20,000 or $30,000 a year, and any smart-aleck gag you try may be your last. But what's life without a laugh?
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Love is a serious mental disease.
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I made the best business decision at 14 when I decided to get into acting. The worst was owning 2 homes at the same time.
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Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
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You sail into the harbor, and Staten Island is on your left, and then you see the Statue of Liberty. This is what everyone in the world has dreams of when they think about New York. And I thought, 'My God, I'm in Heaven. I'll be dancing down Fifth Avenue like Fred Astaire with Ginger Rogers.'
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As for loving woman, I have never understood why some people had a fit. I still don't. It seems fine to me. If an individual is productive responsible, and energetic, why should her choice in a partner make such a fuss? The government is only too happy to take my tax money and yet they uphold legislation that keeps me a second class citizen. Surely, there should be a tax break for those of us who are robbed of full and equal participation and protection in the life of our nation.
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Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.
