K. Eric Drexler Quotes
If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.
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The only morality I'm interested in is the morality between your ears, between each player's ears, because that's the interesting thing to me.
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I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Salesforce's Chatter is what convinced me that the company understood what is going on in the enterprise; this was the biggest attraction for me. I saw that Salesforce understands social.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.
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A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
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My mind is stuffed with quotes. Lines, couplets, paragraphs, stanzas; Bessie Smith, Stevie Smith, Tin Pan Alley, rock and roll. They tease or lead or hurl me into a dream space of jostling languages that I need to bask in each day in order to write.
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Really, what matters in the long run is sticking with things and working daily to get better at them.
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As everything in this world is but a sham, Death is the only sincerity.
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If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have.
