Lee Smolin Quotes

Unfortunately, so far... a truly background independent formulation of string theory has not been achieved... It is often called the search for M theory...

Lee Smolin

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Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.

Walt Mossberg
- Good
- Nature
- Day
I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned.

Orlando Bloom
You can get money and make a really cheap movie. You can, from independent financers who are just giving you money to support artists. This is what was happening in the '90s, and I was very fortunate to be a part of that.

Parker Posey
- Money
- Movie
- Giving
Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

Jack Levine
- Think
- Like
- Independent
What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.

P. J. O'Rourke
- Up
- Small
- Space
I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all written by myself, and then I adapted 'Tsotsi,' so I was used to the writing process being, in a way, integral to my directing. I felt it really prepared me.

Gavin Hood
- Work
- Writing
- Myself