Laurie Anderson Quotes
Computers are so deeply stupid. What bother me most when they talk about technology is they don't realize how much more exciting their minds are. That machine is stupid. And boring. It does just a few things and then it'll crash. People think, 'I am on the Net, I am in touch with the world'. Wrong! The point is how we work, not how machines work.
Laurie Anderson
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Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.
P. J. O'Rourke
I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.
Irrfan Khan
I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I just have to go right down to the common denominator, find the simplest way that you can look at an object or a problem, and not muck it up with all of the stuff that adults do and over-analyze.
Barbara Park
If a woman feels anchored to a man's plans, she may start to resent him for the fun she's worried she's missing.
Olivia Wilde
For me, when I grew up playing music, I played music in church and people were shouting and having a big time, and church wasn't something where it was subdued. If you played something, you brought it to church with you.
Randy Owen
Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
Imre Lakatos
When people are scared, they need something done that will make them feel safe, even if it doesn't truly make them safer. Politicians naturally want to do something in response to crisis, even if that something doesn't make any sense. But unfortunately for politicians, the security measures that work are largely invisible.
Bruce Schneier
People who cover Apple figured this racket out a long time ago, which is that if you become cozy with Apple and never criticize them, they will give you some access.
Daniel Lyons
Unless we give part of ourselves away, unless we can live with other people and understand them and help them, we are missing the most essential part of our own human lives.
Harold Taylor
What happens when an art form becomes ambiguous, I think, is that the standards are lowered. You can say anything is jazz. So I think it's important to reflect on what made jazz so special.
Stefon Harris
Being a journalist, you write what you see. If we can't do that, what use are we? I turned years of training on myself.
Katie Hafner
Computers are so deeply stupid. What bother me most when they talk about technology is they don't realize how much more exciting their minds are. That machine is stupid. And boring. It does just a few things and then it'll crash. People think, 'I am on the Net, I am in touch with the world'. Wrong! The point is how we work, not how machines work.
Laurie Anderson
