Edward Tenner Quotes

If we define technology as a modification of the environment, then we must recognize the complementary principle of technique: how that modification is used in performance. New objects change behavior, but not always as inventors and manufacturers imagine. And changes in behavior of people, as of bears and dogs, inspire new hardware, which in turn engenders more innovations.

Edward Tenner

• Technology
• Environment
• Imagine
• Behavior
• Performance
• Modification

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• If you stop one terror attack in the U.S., it may be connected to multiple other plots out there that are connected. If you reveal that you stopped one plot, it may tip our hand.

  

  Patrick McHenry
  • May
  • You
  • Stop

• I love snacks, but I'm kind of growing out of them. I'm getting into fruit and Clif Bars.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Growing
  • Kind
  • Fruit

• Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Time
  • Inevitable
  • Incredible

• Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Live
  • Character

• My friends always laugh because I'm the kind of person who bought the Brooks Brothers school skirt, even though it's not my school's uniform skirt, but just because I liked it. I'm a knee-high socks kind of person.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • School
  • Friends
  • High

• It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • World
  • Believe
  • Man

• As an actress, one of the perks is having access to ridiculously expensive clothing and prancing around on the red carpet. Who wouldn't want to have fun with that?

  

  Becki Newton
  • Fun
  • Want
  • Red

• And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Experience
  • Opinion
  • Information

• I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - you know, the prize. I was, like, 'Hey, man, I'm going to sing.'

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Man
  • Purpose
  • Like

• I think of myself as an actor.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Actor

• There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the self, as it were, itself.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Self
  • Selfish

• One third of the economy goes through 'QuickBooks' in terms of businesses invoicing other businesses. Each invoice contains a connection between vendors, suppliers, and customers, and also the price of that connection. Representing the payment graph is huge opportunity and something no other company can do.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Opportunity
  • Connection
  • Economy

• Can you imagine me coming to this country to blow up a post office? I told them, 'My bombs are my books.'

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Up
  • Country
  • Blow

• In Mudcrutch we all wrote songs, and when it got to the focus on Tom and the Heartbreakers, I kept writing songs, but it wasn't anything that was up the Heartbreakers tree, I didn't think - and I don't think they did, either. So I kept writing songs for the hell of it, but I didn't want to make a record just for the sake of making a record.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Focus

• I went from elementary school to proper training, operatic training, and I went on to the Motown University and learned a lot of things from some wonderful people.

  

  Martha Reeves
  • People
  • School
  • Training

• There are a lot of people of my generation in New Zealand literature, young writers on their first or second books, that I'm just really excited about. There seems to be a big gap between the generation above and us; it seems to be quite radically different in terms of form and approach.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • People
  • Different
  • Literature

• I'm trying to get to Mars before everyone else.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Trying

• Ever since I started doing television, I tended to get cast, for the most part, as these strong, intelligent women... Which is wonderful, but very rarely do I get to be the goofy girl that I am.

  

  Amanda Tapping
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Girl

• I try to read as much as I can - all the time, really. And I absolutely love going to the cinema, especially during the day.

  

  Alison Goldfrapp
  • Time

• My family owned a furniture/appliance store near Kingston, Jamaica. I worked there all summer but lived in a very structured environment the rest of the year at an all-girl Catholic boarding school.

  

  Ann-Marie Campbell
  • Family
  • School
  • Girl

• The peoples of the Andes believe in the concept of 'living well' instead of wanting to 'live better' by consuming more, regardless of the cost to our neighbors and our environment.

  

  Evo Morales
  • Environment
  • Wells
  • Cost

• I think with the work we do with these drugs we are the earliest pioneers in what over the next 100 years will lead to an understanding of consciousness almost as a thing apart from the monkey body and brain.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Understanding
  • Brain
  • Body

• If we define technology as a modification of the environment, then we must recognize the complementary principle of technique: how that modification is used in performance. New objects change behavior, but not always as inventors and manufacturers imagine. And changes in behavior of people, as of bears and dogs, inspire new hardware, which in turn engenders more innovations.

  

  Edward Tenner
  • Technology
  • Environment
  • Imagine