Annie Jacobsen Quotes
Many of the engineers I interviewed worked on reverse-engineering technology. It's a hallmark of Area 51.
Quotes to Explore
-
Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.
-
You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.
-
I do not remember exactly when I became interested in astronomy, but I know it was at a very young age. I did organize an astronomy club for my friends at the age of 11. We would meet once a week to learn about the constellations.
-
Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many of those sectors, they weren't as early as Tencent.
-
I don't know how people recognize me.
-
The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
-
He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
-
It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
-
Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.
-
I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
-
God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
-
I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.
-
I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
-
The fans sing my name around the world. When I meet fans, they ask, 'How are you? All good with your family?'
-
I developed my camera system, called the Medusa, jointly with a colleague down in Australia as a method of exploring the ocean unobtrusively. The critical thing was that we didn't use white light, which I believe has been scaring the animals away.
-
Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
-
I just really allowed my muse to be my guide and I just go with whatever I'm feeling.
-
I would put myself towards left of center.
-
It's part of my character not to take myself too seriously. That's one of the reasons I've been able to survive.
-
Don't listen to experts.
-
An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us.
-
Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.
-
I got hooked on immersive cinema when I worked on '2001,' which was initially shown on these Cinerama screens, which were all 90 feet wide and deeply curved.
-
Many of the engineers I interviewed worked on reverse-engineering technology. It's a hallmark of Area 51.
