Clive Thompson Quotes

The main message of 'Smarter Than You Think' is an attempt to look at the productively new and interesting ways that we have begun to learn about the world, to think about what we found, and to mull it over and argue about it with other people as we use technology.

Clive Thompson

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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

Bear Grylls
- Army
- Year
- Soldier
I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.

Barbara Kingsolver
- People
- Work
- Live
I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.

Kate Winslet
- World
- Kids
- Together
Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid
- Return
- Wave
- Nor
I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.

Waylon Jennings
- People
- Time
- Music
If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

Ira Glass
- Women
- Woman
- Year