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technology people computer
In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers. Richard Power
technology mad dumb
The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad! Richard P. Feynman
technology space brain
We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space. Richard Dawkins
technology class pie
Even now, despite Angeline's watchfulness, she'd occasionally oscillate between random topics, like how shepherd's pie wasn't a pie at all and why it was pointless for her to take class in typing when technology would eventually develop robot companions to do it for us. Richelle Mead
technology college keys
In an age of social media and content being key, it's important to change the mold where you have $100,000 to $150,000 for one video. I hired some guys that are young, just out of college, and we used some new, far-less-expensive cameras and technology to make videos. Ronnie Dunn
technology space cartoon
apart from the seemingly magical Internet, life in broad material terms isn't so different from what it was in 1953... The wonders portrayed in 'The Jetsons,' the space-age television cartoon from the 1960s, have not come to pass... Life is better and we have more stuff, but the pace of change has slowed down... Tyler Cowen
technology self density
I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the ‘instantly available’. Richard Foreman
technology thinking looks
I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science. Richard Powers
technology practice medicine
One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.
lights since
He's been pretty much lights out since he got over here. Chipper Jones
light
I didn't like him as light as he was. He should have been a little bulkier. That's when he's Shaq Diesel. Gary Payton
light
He was the kind of guy, when things were down, he brightened them up. He was happy-go-lucky ... and that light shone around him all the time.
light punishment fake
The Constitution has to be interpreted loosely, otherwise it becomes a straitjacket. You can't interpret it literally. You can pretend to, and go digging around in 18th Century dictionaries to figure out what 'cruel and unusual punishment' meant or what the 'right to bear arms' meant, but that is all fake really. The Constitution has to be interpreted in light of modern needs, and that's what they (the strict interpreters) end up doing in spite of all their investigations. Richard Posner
light enemy banking
The money power denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes. William Jennings Bryan
light soul waterfalls
She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through. Virginia Woolf
light average giving
What advice would I give the average homeowner to protect himself against burglars? Well, the first thing is to keep a light on in the house when you go out. It must be at least a sixty-watt bulb; anything less and the burglar will ransack the house, out of contempt for the wattage. Woody Allen
light hard
When you are dead, it is hard to find the light switch.
light imagination rivals
But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation. William Wordsworth
rooms studio
When I am in New York, you know, my studio is big, about 20,000 to 25,000 square feet, and I have painting rooms and rooms I do etching in, rooms I do lithographs. Peter Max
rooms christ leading-me
Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before. Richard Baxter
rooms visitors proust
Marcel Proust shut out visitors from his cork-lined room, where he wrote, but he probably expected to be immortalized in the literary canon. Even the most introverted drives and motives are set in a social context and amplified by the potential for achieving fame.
rooms bowling remember
Remember there is plenty of room at the top-but not enough to sit down. Zig Ziglar
rooms meetings only-time
The only time I'm the only woman in the room is when I go to the leadership meeting. Nancy Pelosi
rooms months six
It’s not exactly that I can’t stay in one place. It’s that if I’m in one place, I have to rearrange it every four to six months! I have to completely change my room! Jackson Rathbone
rooms chandeliers
Never buy anything in a room with a chandelier. Harvey Mackay
rooms palaces odes
A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in a palace: one proceeds, with eager anticipation, from room to room. James Fenton
rooms band happens
What happens in the band room stays in the band room. John Green