Ramez Naam Quotes

In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.

Ramez Naam

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• The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Thought
  • Criticism
  • Romantics

• How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Important
  • Power
  • Hope

• Every artist was first an amateur.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Art
  • Artist
  • First

• I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Women
  • Smile
  • Aliens

• Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Children
  • Father
  • Parents

• I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Heart
  • Business
  • Go

• One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.

  

  Nancy McKeon
  • Work
  • Amazing
  • Star

• Have a little faith. Don't give up.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Up
  • Faith
  • Give

• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Know
  • Price
  • Late

• To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Me
  • Easy
  • Cat

• I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they're incomplete. And this captures perfectly what I think about contemporary African literature. The problem isn't that it's inaccurate, it's that it's incomplete.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Think
  • Problem
  • Literature

• Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Emotion
  • Everyone
  • Temper

• It is not length of life, but depth of life.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Depth
  • Length

• May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • People
  • Life
  • Long

• When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Money
  • You
  • Desire

• Crony capitalism is alive and well: the big are bigger, the wealthy are getting wealthier because, with a very large powerful complicated government, which is what we have and which Democrats want more of, only the big, the powerful, the wealthy and the well connected can survive.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Want
  • Government
  • Powerful

• Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Important
  • You
  • Memory

• I've had fans come and knock on my door. I'm usually polite, but I'm usually very direct and say, 'It's not cool that you come here uninvited.'

  

  Gary Allan
  • Cool
  • Door
  • Fans

• An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Together
  • Heroic
  • Epic

• I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.

  

  Bobby Fischer
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Free

• My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Movies
  • Short
  • Boring

• You could make a good case that the history of social life is about the history of the technology of memory. That social order and control, structure of governance, social cohesion in states or organizations larger than face-to-face society depends on the nature of the technology of memory - both how it works and what it remembers. In short, what societies value is what they memorize, and how they memorize it, and who has access to its memorized form determines the structure of power that the society represents and acts from.

  

  Eben Moglen
  • Power
  • History
  • Technology

• You must let go of your past and embrace your future and figure out what path you're going to go down

  

  George Lucas
  • Future
  • Embrace
  • Figures

• In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Technology
  • Embrace
  • U.S.