"A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long run."

-- Francis Collins

#Running Quotes #Long Quotes #Technological Quotes

“Some of the same self-certified smart people, who preached about mushroom clouds and weapons of mass destruction, are once again trying to stampede us into war. They seem to think only with their guns. To those who want to shoot first and ask questions later in Iraq, I join in a firm 'No!' We've been there and done that, and America is still paying for their past failure.”
“Care enough to make a difference. Care enough to turn somebody around. Care enough to change. Care enough to win.”
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.”
“Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. We have a moment of real feeling or insight, and then we come up with a folk saying that captures the insight in a kind of wash. The intuition may be real and ripe, fresh with possibilities, but the folk saying is guaranteed to be a cliche, stale and self-contained.”
“People look at film in a gallery, and if they walk out after two minutes they know they haven't seen the whole work. But then people look at a painting for two minutes and think they've seen it. Certain paintings are made to be consumed fast. But some require a slowed-down time. You have to go back to them.”

Source : "Julie Mehretu paints chaos with chaos - from Tahrir Square to Zuccotti Park". Interview with Jason Farago, www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2013.
“The problem is the way we let our desires stand in the way of our enjoyment of what we already have.”

Source : Brad Warner (2015). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.75, Simon and Schuster
“The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis.”
“It is not that things are delusory but their separateness in the fabric of the Whole that is illusory...”

Source : "Echoes from the Bottomless Well". Book by Frederick Franck, p. 77, 1985.

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