Clive Thompson Quotes
Transactive memory works best when you have a sense of how your partners' minds work - where they're strong, where they're weak, where their biases lie. I can judge that for people close to me. But it's harder with digital tools, particularly search engines.
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I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.
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When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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I'm a Sufi Muslim, I would say. I believe in using the medium to create a good vibration because art is so important to society. Some projects I don't do because I feel that it's going to create a bad vibe. I don't do propaganda films that are anti another religion, anti-Muslim or anti-Hindu.
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Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
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A guitar can be so human, so sorrowful, so angry, and I wanted to figure out how to achieve that vibe without having to actually use guitars, because 'Badlands' is a very futuristic record - and making it that in an era of futuristic music is a really hard thing to do!
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I'm just gonna be doing stuff that I really enjoy doing. I'm not gonna attempt to be current in any way other than the fact that people will like what I'm doing currently.
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You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.
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I love the gym, but I still want to look a bit awkward at it. I don't want to look too on top of it, you know?
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It's always so difficult when you've left your kids to go to work every day - you want people to like it. I just agonise over it, but I'm obsessive because I love what I do.
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I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their students and for the society will be.
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People who annoy people are the luckiest people in the world.
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Transactive memory works best when you have a sense of how your partners' minds work - where they're strong, where they're weak, where their biases lie. I can judge that for people close to me. But it's harder with digital tools, particularly search engines.
