"My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities in orbit. And this led to various sorts of work in space development."

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Source : Foresight Interview, foresight.org.

K. Eric Drexler

#Space Quotes #Orbit Quotes #Mit Quotes

“Calvin [Trillin] has never done anything majorly objectionable.”
“I make a habit of setting aside some time each evening to take out my knitting and work quietly on it, happily relaxing. I believe that it prepares me for sleep and washes away the cares of my day.I will consider that intarsia, or Fair Isle with three or more colors in a row, prepares nobody for sleep and cursing loudly while flinging knitting around the living room is about as far away from soothing as you can get.”

Source : Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.156, Storey Publishing
“I'm so envious of that genetic wiring that immediately puts a smile on your face. My genetic wiring just puts creases in my eyebrows.”
“The separation of talent and skill is one of the largest misconceptions in modern society. Talent is something you born with, but skill can only be attained through Hours and Hours of hard work perfecting your talent as a craft. Which is why Talent will fail you without skill.”
“I love forms beyond my own, and regret the borders between us”
“I’d be glad to go out on a limb with those Who want nothing beyond what the wind bestows, Were I not bound to roots, dug in deep to bear Never being done grasping for light and air”
“Literacy is the tool we use as humans to find one another, so it must belong to everyone.”
“Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite.”

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