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“Descriptive geometry has two objects: the first is to establish methods to represent on drawing paper which has only two dimensions,-namely, length and width,-all solids of nature which have three dimensions,-length, width, and depth,-provided, however, that these solids are capable of rigorous definition. The second object is to furnish means to recognize accordingly an exact description of the forms of solids and to derive thereby all truths which result from their forms and their respective positions.”
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“It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
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“I've never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring.”
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“Life will be much more exciting when we stop creating applications for mobile phones and we start creating applications for our own body.”
Source : "Erik Brynjolfsson: In A Race With Machines, Can We Keep Up?". 'TED Radio Hour' with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. April 21, 2017.
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“She was working to remind herself of who she was. She was working to remember that somewhere in another place entirely she was known and loved.”
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“I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in.”
Source : Harvey Pekar, Michael Rhode (2008). “Harvey Pekar: Conversations”, p.125, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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“The best of causes ruins as quickly as the worst; and the road to Limbo is paved with writers who have done everything I am being sympathetic, not satiric for the very best reasons.”
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“When we think about our work it deals with our motivations, our desires, our sense of security, purpose, and status. Our work deals with a whole host of relationships. Work impacts the flourishing of individuals, communities, and nations.”