Will Gregory

Will Gregory
William Owen "Will" Gregory17 September 1959) is an English musician and record producer. He is best known as the lead keyboardist, producer, and composer of the electronic music duo Goldfrapp...
self people identity
People fear their hidden selves, afraid that they will burst out.
technology doe
Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.
technology magic
Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
pain ignorance everyday
You had to form for yourself a lucid language for the world, to overcome the battering of experience, to replace everyday life's pain and harshness and wretched dreariness with - no not with certainty but with an ignorance you could live with. Deep ignorance, but still a kind that knew its limits. The limits were crucial.
real matter wells
No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal.
pleasure results made
It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.
tides details great-nations
The personal was, compared with the tides of great nations, a bothersome detail.
welfare economics modern
Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future.
voice forever literature
Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a steady conversation forever provisional and personal and living.
contraceptives ugliness
Ugliness is nature's contraceptive.
moving mean space
Once you've grown up in space, moving on means moving out, not going back to Earth. Nobody wants to be a groundpounder.
firsts theory crank
(Crank theories) always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable.
dream frustration luxury
Everybody feels he has a right to a life of luxury - or at least comfort - so there's a lot of frustration and resentment when the dream craps out.
mistake biggest-mistake
The biggest mistake is being too afraid of making one.