"Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today."

-- Ralph Merkle

#Powerful Quotes #World Quotes #Sugar Quotes

“In Nigeria, the hopes of millions have been pinned on me. Everything I do is under the spotlight. If they want to sell papers, they put me on the cover. If they want to gain popular support in an election, they ask for my endorsement. Where does someone like me go when we need a safe place to be and learn? To renew, deepen the foundation of our work, and sharpen our focus? To share experiences, lessons and build relationships with others that can advance our thinking, approach and capacity? We go to the YES! Jam, which gives us all that and so much more.”
“Whatever life presents us, our response can be an expression of our compassion.”

Source : FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Jun 15, 2013
“Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think actually what I'm going to do when I'm done and take my next vacation, is I'm going to go over and start unions in Japan. I'm going to unionize Japan. Because the way they work those crews is so criminal. There's no overtime, so they can just keep going.”
“It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men's attitude to women, and in women's attitude to themselves.”

Source : Vera Brittain (1953). “Lady Into Woman: A History of Women from Victoria to Elizabeth II”
“Vertical and horizontal lines are the expression of two opposing forces; they exist everywhere and dominate everything; their reciprocal action constitutes 'life'. I recognized that the equilibrium of any particular aspect of nature rests on the equivalence of its opposites.”

Source : Piet Mondrian, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Washington Gallery of Modern Art (Washington, D.C.) (1965). “Piet Mondrian, 1872-1944: exhibition Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Washington Gallery of Modern Art”
“I do have shout-outs to bands and musicians I like in my books, but the musical references can be misunderstood. Often, I have people listening to music that I would never listen to personally, because it fits and defines their character.”

Source : Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.
“I think it was impossible not to come upon a lot of confabulation simply because any good scholarship that has been done since [Buckminster Fuller] death has really delved in that.”

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