Clive Thompson Quotes

No consumer product improves more drastically, year after year, than the computer.

Clive Thompson

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• The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Long
  • Growth
  • Overcoming

• There are two of my favorite books, 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Gone With The Wind', that were made into movies. And I love those movies as much as I love the books. That's really rare.

  

  Tatiana de Rosnay
  • Great
  • Love
  • Wind

• Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Person
  • Racism
  • Lead

• I firmly believe, only because I've been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 90% of them don't get three years. It just does. It takes a long time to build a community, build a friendship with your characters. It's hard for people to grasp on and make them care about you.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• Sometimes I know a joke I'm going to yell out ahead of time, but most of the time it's stream of conscious. You never really know it until you've got everyone dressed up, the set is built, all the extras are here.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • Time
  • Know

• Even as one and the same person is called by different names according to the different functions he performs, so also one and the same mind is called by the different names: mind, intellect, memory, and egoity, on account of the difference in the modes - and not because of any real difference.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Real

• I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Opportunity
  • Doing
  • Greatest

• If someone is not treating you in a way that you like, remember that there are so many nice people out there. The problem is that when you love someone, you make excuses for that kind of behavior.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • People
  • Remember
  • Way

• I think if I wasn't in very high level, I never will be in the team. Cause I was high, in very high level.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • High
  • Think
  • Team

• Most of the authors I liked were dead, so it didn't seem like a safe occupation.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Like
  • Dead
  • Seem

• Fashion is a great thing, it's a way to express who you are.

  

  Zendaya
  • Great
  • You
  • Fashion

• Feminists who say that I switched sides because I am an opportunist should know that exactly the opposite is true. It's cost me a lot of money. I've gone from being well-to-do to being $70,000 in debt. I have done something self-destructive financially. I could only do it because I don't have to support a wife and child.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Money
  • Done
  • True

• We don't need a nation that has national identity cards.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Identity
  • Nation
  • Cards

• In all the human societies we have ever reviewed, in every age and every state, there has seldom if ever been a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Age
  • Die

• It's not important to me... people will see my films if they want to. Also, I cannot deal with so many things, I have bandwidth only for that much.

  

  Aamir Khan
  • People
  • Important

• I deeply resent the destruction of federalism represented by Hillary Clinton's willingness to go into a state she doesn't even live in and pretend to represent the people there. So I certainly wouldn't imitate it.

  

  Alan Keyes
  • People
  • Live
  • She

• The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Life

• I think the author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Children
  • Bad
  • Mother

• I have rooms full of little dongly things and don't want any more. Half the little dongly things I've got, I don't even know what gizmo they're for. More importantly, half the gizmos I've got, I don't know where their little dongly thing is.

  

  Douglas Adams

• Every day, I think of designs, but I don't write them down, and I forget. If only I had an office.

  

  Alexa Chung

• I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.

  

  Ernest Shackleton
  • Realized
  • Clearing
  • Crest

• Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do is this life is to let himself die.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Advice
  • Life is
  • Long Time

• No consumer product improves more drastically, year after year, than the computer.

  

  Clive Thompson