"In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western culture, being more suspicious of science, and hubris, you'll see a lot of fear of creating something that goes out of control."

-- Cynthia Breazeal

#Thinking Quotes #Creating Quotes #Western Culture Quotes

“Be silent in a group of people See what they reveal to you.”

Source : Yoko Ono (2013). “Acorn”, p.88, Algonquin Books
“Money is becoming increasingly plastic and digital. If there is a major disaster, let's say an asteroid strike, we'll go back to trading meats and furs. We won't need an abstraction, a dollar bill, but real tangible goods to survive.”
“Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie.”
“I didn't have a childhood.”
“Wisdom is the aristic craving for extraordinary insights, for incandescent revelations that have the power to burst through banausic and doulic ordinariness: wisdom is the lust to be transfigured, transvaluated.”
“It sounds morbid, but because my mother knew she was dying, she discussed with us her not being there, and it helped me and my brother deal with her passing that much better.”
“The Lord survives the rainbow of His will.”
“I am now and have always been a stranger to the realm of practical matters.”

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