Andy Clark Quotes
We humans have indeed always been adept at dovetailing our minds and skills to the shape of our current tools and aids. But when those tools and aids start dovetailing back - when our technologies actively, automatically, and continually tailor themselves to us, just as we do to them - then the line between tool and user becomes flimsy indeed.
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I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.
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I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.
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In this post 9-11 world we live in, it is critical we take steps to improve the safety and security of the Trucking Industry which has proven to be our most mobile and flexible mode of transporting goods.
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Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.
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It's creepy to see fan sites about me.
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Before I paint someone, I always ask, 'How much examination can your body take?' 'How much do you want me to see?'
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I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
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The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!
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When I was a boy, cricket was very, very English. Anyone who spoke English and anyone from a big town could play. And that was it.
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You will attract the younger generation and they might well prove tougher than the older generation. What we are trying to do is to look at the future and see what we can do to bring some stability back to people's lives.
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He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.
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The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.
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I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.
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Getting a new passport took me a stupid amount of time. I had to go back five times with different photographs because they kept saying I was smiling, which is against the rules. I was not smiling.
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No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.
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I dreamed of becoming a writer. And this dream is about to become a reality with the publication of my first, and hopefully not my last, children's book.
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If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
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I felt good going to the line. I shot them all the same. I should iced the game. This one's on me.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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I think people thought I was crazy for leaving Mexico when I had any project I wanted falling at my feet. But I risked everything to come to Los Angeles, where no one knew who I was, and start all over again. It was a very hard step to take. However, it was the moment I thought it was right to take a risk in my career.
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We humans have indeed always been adept at dovetailing our minds and skills to the shape of our current tools and aids. But when those tools and aids start dovetailing back - when our technologies actively, automatically, and continually tailor themselves to us, just as we do to them - then the line between tool and user becomes flimsy indeed.
