"The best books, they don’t talk about things you never thought about before. They talk about things you’d always thought about, but you didn’t think anyone else had thought about. You read them, and suddenly you’re a little bit less alone in the world. You’re part of this cosmic community of people who’ve thought about this thing, whatever it happens to be."

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Source : "We All Looked Up". Book by Tommy Wallach, March 24, 2015.

Tommy Wallach

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“In the end, robots do things that people can do. So there is a cost above which you can hire somebody to do it, and that bounds the opportunity.”

Source : "iRobot CEO: Enough with the gimmick 'bots (Q & A)". Interview with Martin Lamonica, www.cnet.com. November 4, 2011.
“When I recorded for Columbia, I could usually do anything in one take...I would invariably want to use the first take because that would be the one that was spontaneous and fresh.”
“I have seen youths bright eyed and fair groping after bubbles in rapture, and conceiving them diamonds and the glitter of fine jewels, until their hand closed over a something that was not to be felt nor longer seen, mere colored air.”
“We imagined ourselves as the Sons of Liberty with a mission to preserve, protect, and project the revolutionary spirit of rock and roll. We feared that the music which had given us sustenance was in danger of spiritual starvation. We feared it losing its sense of purpose, we feared it falling into fattened hands, we feared it floundering in a mire of spectacle, finance, and vapid technical complexity.”
“I think a woman can have all of the ideas and mental pictures. She can be a real planner and a motivator. But in the end, I think a woman does best when she responds to a man.”
“When I was in school, I used to look out the window and see the big red double-deck buses driving by. It just looked so free.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I've learned... That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am.”
“Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.”

Source : Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton

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