"The earth has grown a nervous system, and it's us."

-- Daniel Dennett

#Earth Quotes #Nervous Quotes #Nervous System Quotes

“I did a series called Ned and Stacey for two years for Fox back in the 90s. I was writer on it as well as a producer, and it was very important to me that there were no contemporary references.”
“I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything”
“The process of receiving information for me is seeing, hearing, and feeling their energy in my frame of reference. That doesn't mean I see the individual, unfortunately.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I drive a lot in the summertime, but after that, I don't drive if there's snow predicted for anywhere in 500 miles.”
“There's no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It's experiencing the climb itself - in all its moments of revelation, heartbreak, and fatigue - that has to be the goal.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“I get so ticked off at you intellectually lazy people who think that the government is God, that every dollar they get or spend is somehow sacred. There is more fraud and waste and misuse. If the federal government were held accountable to the law as corporations are held accountable, half the federal government would be in prison.”
“We must be very careful when we give advice to younger people: sometimes they follow it!”

Source : "The Humble Programmer". Edsger Dijkstra's ACM Turing Award lecture, "Communications of the ACM", Volume 15, No. 10, www.cs.utexas.edu. October 1972.
“I know that sometimes the chemistry just isn't there between the model, photographer, hair and make-up. It's nobody's fault and you just have to do better next time.”

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