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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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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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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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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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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Take care, you who wish / to deal with names / for love. Behind their sweetness / and wrath, nothing endures. / Nothing but wounds and kisses.
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I want to go to Lapland and see Father Christmas, and now I've got a child, so I've got an excuse. Also, I'd like to go to South America especially as I'm now living in that part of the world, in L.A. now. And I must get down to Mexico.
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When I came back on the rink in 2012, I set a goal of wrapping up my career well rather than just winning medals. I'm not preparing for any special skills for Sochi because I don't feel like they are necessary.
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The day when we plan seriously to start living either never comes or it comes too late.
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Both for my wife and myself, the personal friendships that have grown out of scientific contacts with colleagues from many different countries have been an important part of our lives, and the travels we have made together in connection with the world-wide scientific co-operation have given us rich treasures of experiences.
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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.
