Edward Felten Quotes

The problem - when you cast your net that wide - is you inevitably catch something you don't want to catch.

Edward Felten

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• Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble cause, and that's where we should be heading. But once we get past that - once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with - when we start thinking about the future, there's an opportunity to create some new life-forms.

  

  Jack Horner
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.

  

  Frances E. Willard
  • Fashion
  • Thought
  • Sympathy

• The genesis of Public Interest Litigation in listening to the voice of the voiceless and giving access to the poor, the marginalised, and the weak is a unique experiment to be lauded.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Giving
  • Listening
  • Unique

• No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Doing
  • New
  • New York

• By itself, tofu is like wet foam rubber, but you'd no more eat it by itself and expect fine dining than you would stare at a blank canvas and expect to see fine art.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Art
  • See
  • Canvas

• Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

  

  Maggie Kuhn
  • Power
  • Hands
  • Few

• The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Faith

• I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Women
  • Real
  • Age

• When I first came out, I was a film student, and my mom sewed clothes. I was already doing a million things then, whatever it took to survive. If I had to braid someone's hair to get one pound for my lunch money, that's what I did.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Money
  • Mom
  • Hair

• I do still read comics since I started writing for DC, but nowhere near as much as I used to, and I'm finding now that it's becoming harder to read comics as a consumer, so I think I'll have to make the call there and stop reading them.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Writing
  • Stop
  • Reading

• I have popular support.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • Support
  • Popular

• They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

  

  Malcolm Cowley
  • Mind
  • Lose
  • Grow

• And your work reflects a tradition that runs through our history - a belief that we’re greater together than we are on our own. And that’s what I’ve come here to talk about today.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • History
  • Together

• We do not need French post-structuralism, whose pedantic jargon, clumsy convolutions, and prissy abstractions have spread throughout academe and the arts and are now blighting the most promising minds of the next generation. This is a major crisis if there ever was one, and every sensible person must help bring it to an end.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Help

• «Sometimes the best decision is to make no decision, which is also to make a decision.»

  

  Mariano Rajoy
  • Decision

• In my mind, I'm always the best. I don't care what people think, what they say. In my mind, not just this year but always, I'm always the best.

  

  Cristiano Ronaldo
  • People
  • Mind

• I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Control
  • Human
  • Determined

• Christians are supposed to be the most forgiving people on the face of the Earth.

  

  Jimmy Swaggart
  • People
  • Earth

• We notice in others only those things that relate to ourselves. For example, you could find someone hilarious and brilliant, and I could find the same person idiotic and annoying. It's the same person doing the same thing, but because we are viewing them from our own unique perspectives, they mirror back to us something different.

  

  Jen Sincero
  • Different
  • Unique
  • Mirror

• We must all begin to question the experts. They have not really been right. No abundance of material goods can compensate for the death of individuality and personal creativity.

  

  Coretta Scott King
  • Death
  • Question
  • Creativity

• Before, I always lived in anticipation . . . that it was all a preparation for something else, something "greater," more "genuine." But that feeling has dropped away from me completely. I live here and now, this minute, this day, to the full, and the life is worth living.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • Life is
  • Preparation
  • Genuine

• The art of 'figuring' or 'picturing' is not a fine art. An artist who is lobbying as a 'creature of circumstances' or log rolling as a 'victim of fate' is not a fine master artist. No one ever forces an artist to be pure.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Art
  • Fate

• I want to call him right now and tell him about it. It's an honor.

  

  Carlos Gonzalez
  • Want
  • Honor
  • Him

• The problem - when you cast your net that wide - is you inevitably catch something you don't want to catch.

  

  Edward Felten