"I was always interested in technology. When personal computers came out, I was one of the first to pick one up and begin playing with it. My hobbies tend to be not about going fishing or hiking, but about playing on machines. Just like some people like helicopters and tanks and cars, I like technology a lot."

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Source : Source: film.avclub.com

Mamoru Oshii

#Technology Quotes #People Quotes #Car Quotes

“All of my close friends have been in my life for years. My best friends are all people I met in grade school, going back as far as 3rd grade.”
“...cast from your heart the bitterness...”
“To me, as a musician, there aren't any boundaries genre-wise as far as what can you listen to to inspire you.”
“... much seemingly chance variation in human behavior is not due to chance; it is in fact the logical result of a few basic, observable differences in mental functioning.”

Source : Isabel Briggs Myers, Peter B. Myers (1995). “Gifts differing: understanding personality type”, Davies-Black Publishing
“I ended up [doing video] meeting Gillian [Grassie] at the same time that we were getting together a book. We ended up working on it, and she recognized that I had a flair for certain things, and we've worked through it together so that the writing could be really good. It was the perfect partnership, just finding my literary voice and figuring out how comedy translates to the written word.”
“The young donÂ’t know what age is, and the old forget what youth was.”
“The sphere of the attractive virtue which is in the moon extends as far as the earth, and entices up the waters; but as the moon flies rapidly across the zenith, and the waters cannot follow so quickly, a flow of the ocean is occasioned in the torrid zone towards the westward.”
“Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.”

Source : "Open letter to the Masters of Dublin". The Irish Times, October 7, 1913.

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