"I think the print media have failed to make the most of their opportunity. They may all disappear because they are approaching things in the wrong way."

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Source : Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

David Gelernter

#Opportunity Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Media Quotes

“When you're making a movie, you can't think anybody will ever see it. You've just got to make a movie for the values it has. The greatest films were made because someone really wanted to make them. And, hopefully, the audience will show up, too.”

Source : Source: www.discdish.com
“Since 2005, when the French and the Dutch voted "no" on a constitution for Europe, nobody has developed a real project for the EU. And certainly not France. If there were ideas, they came from Wolfgang SchÃ¤uble or Joschka Fischer, and these German ideas were downright quashed by France. I want to put an end to that.”
“Man, I'm sick of doubt.”
“The issue that's really, really concerning is that you have eight million prime age men who have dropped out of the labor force, folks who aren't even looking for work. You can create job growth all day, but unless you start to do the things that bring those labor force dropouts back into the job market, you're not going to solve the problems.”
“The part of my brain that was responsible for creating the world I lived and moved in and for taking the raw data that came in through my senses and fashioning it into a meaningful universe: that part of my brain was down, and out. And yet despite all of this, I had been alive, and aware, truly aware, in a universe characterized above all by love, consciousness, and reality. There was, for me, simply no arguing this fact. I knew it so completely that I ached.”

Source : Eben Alexander (2012). “Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into the Afterlife”, p.130, Simon and Schuster
“Illinois is a state of suspended animation and the people live in hibernation from Oct. to whenever it ever gets warmer.”

Source : 1940 Pal Joey, ch.9.
“We haven't really - it's harder for us to set those rhythms. So it's really important to keep a steady bedtime and wake time to really lock in those rhythms.”
“I hated my part in the charade of murder and horror. My efforts were contributing to the deaths, to the burning alive of children - especially the children. The photographs of young Vietnamese children burned by napalm destroyed me.”

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