"The real opportunity is to harness the inventive power of the world to locally design and produce solutions to local problems."

-- Neil Gershenfeld

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“My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I think my mother realized she had a somewhat unusual daughter pretty early on.”
“So you know, everyone points out Greece's default record, but the history of a lot of sovereign nations is not a good one when it comes to lending them money.”

Source : "Q&A With Jim Chanos Part I: 'Greece Is A Prelude'". Interview with Vince Veneziani, www.businessinsider.com. April 13, 2010.
“I got caught kissing. Like by my parents. It was so horrible. It's so embarrassing, I'm blushing.”
“People call me crazy and a madman. Even 'Tasmanian Devil.' I'd rather be called the 'Tasmanian Angel.'”
“We sometimes need adversity to fathom our true depths.”

Source : Pat Riley (1993). “Winner Within Success”, Putnam Publishing Group
“Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport...”
“Have fun. Keep your integrity. Do what you want to do and stay true to that.”

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