"Maybe [Iceland] could be sort of a testing ground for solutions because we are few and because we are really a tech-oriented nation. Everybody is a gadget freak. We spend a lot of time indoors."

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Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Birgitta Jonsdottir

#Iceland Quotes #Gadgets Quotes #Freak Quotes

“I'm a gemini, and I get so bored so easily. I mean, I have moved six times in the last eight years.”
“It is less injury to Him to deny His being, than to deny the purity of it; the one makes Him no God, the other a deformed, unlovely, and a detestable God. He that saith God is not holy speaks much worse that he that saith there is no God at all.”
“I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist.”
“As modern-day neuroscience tells us, we are never in touch with the present, because neural information-processing itself takes time. Signals take time to travel from your sensory organs along the multiple neuronal pathways in your body to your brain, and they take time to be processed and transformed into objects, scenes, and complex situations. So, strictly speaking, what you are experiencing as the present moment is actually the past.”

Source : Thomas Metzinger (2009). “The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self”, p.36, Basic Books
“Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.”
“Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything.”
“My old coach used to say two points was two points...”
“Something else that makes me angry is that I got too old to prostitute myself. I wasn't going to anyway but it was there, it was my Z plan.”

Source : Mary Robison (2001). “Why Did I Ever”, Counterpoint LLC

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