"The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable. Why now? Because the change is also exponential - small differences of yesterday can have suddenly shocking consequences tomorrow."

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Source : "Being Digital". Book by Nicholas Negroponte, 1995.

Nicholas Negroponte

#Differences Quotes #Yesterday Quotes #Atoms Quotes

“I think my parents' lives are worthy of writing about. I don't think my life is particularly worthy of writing about.”
“To me it's not so much that the movies are slow-paced as much as they are about spending time building a relationship between the audience and the characters. If you don't spend an adequate amount of time doing this, then how can you expect to scare anyone?”
“Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him.”

Source : Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “An Actor Prepares”, p.38, A&C Black
“Zen, in its essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's own being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom. By making us drink right from the fountain of life it liberates us from all the yokes under which we finite beings are usually suffering in this world.”
“You donâ€™t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.”
“Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work.”
“I'm a feminist, of course, and I feel as if I'm very politically correct, although I do question what's P.C. and what's not - I don't just accept what I'm told.”
“Each routine you read turns out to be pretty much what you expected. You can call it beautiful code when the code also makes it look like the language was made for the problem.”

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