"A Machine to Make a Future is an insightful and creative contribution to the literature--both scholarly and journalistic--on contemporary genomics. By 'experimenting' with narrative genre, the authors hope to generate different insights into the world of genomics and biotechnology than ones generally presented in existing accounts. They succeed at that goal, providing an account that is ethnographically rich and analytically open to a world whose structure, implications, and outcomes are very much in the making."

-- Nadia Abu El Haj

#Goal Quotes #Creative Quotes #Insightful Quotes

“So familiar are eggs to us, however, that in the eighteenth century they were referred to as cackling farts, on the basis that chickens cackled all the time and eggs came out of the back of them.”

Source : Mark Forsyth (2012). “The Horologicon”, p.36, Icon Books
“Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.”
“If you are deaf, you need captions for spoken elements. If you are blind, you need voiced descriptions of Web contents and spoken renderings of e-mail. The range of physical disabilities is very large, and we need many different tools to overcome the consequential barriers to Internet use. Let us commit ourselves to truly assuring that the Internet really is for everyone.”
“Everything we have today that's cool comes from someone wanting more of something they loved in the past. Action figures, videogames, superhero movies, iPods: All are continuations of a love that wanted more.”
“I was focused before - obsessed, really - with the appearance of perfection. But what did that ever bring me but pain? Pain and not seeing people for who they really are. If I ever get out of here, I'll look at people differently. I'll look for their true selves beneath the mask of their bodies. I'll look at soul.”
“The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.”
“I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.”

Source : ""Nightline Playlist: Page McConnell" by Howard L. Rosenberg". abcnews.go.com. January 5, 2008.
“A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.”

Source : Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.275, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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