"Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system - there are lots of nice, well-meaning people there. But it's a sleazy place. And politics is all about doing favors."

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Esther Dyson

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“No matter what happens with technology or whether you're in traditional animation or stop-motion or CG, the biggest challenge always is story. The flow of making the movie is usually determined by how your story is coming together, and when your story is straining and you can't quite get your hands around it, your entire production is straining.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
“Biology is a software process. Our bodies are made up of trillions of cells, each governed by this process. You and I are walking around with outdated software running in our bodies, which evolved in a very different era.”

Source : "Google's Ray Kurzweil on the quest to live forever". Interview with Kate Lunau, www.macleans.ca. October 14, 2013.
“Your reality, Sir, is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever!”
“There is much meaning in the word endure. For example, when dealing with unstable human feelings and uneven pathways in life, without endurance to hold you up, you may fall into a pit in the brush.”
“The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.”
“The quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished.”

Source : Hermann von Helmholtz (1873). “Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects”, p.320
“Now, I went into the Army as a Republican, I came out as a Democrat, and it completely changed my outlook on a lot of things. And when you live side by side with your fellow soldiers and you realize that they're not a number, that they're actually human beings and they have families, it's a lot harder, I think, to talk about sending them to die for things that aren't really that important.”
“Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.”

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