"A few years ago, Bill Gates was boasting that we'll soon have sensors which will turn on the music that we like or show on the walls the paintings we like when we walk into a room. How boring! The hell with our preexisting likes; let's expand ourselves intellectually."

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Source : "Denis Dutton dies; author, philosopher, brother to L.A. booksellers" by Carolyn Kellogg, latimesblogs.latimes.com. December 28, 2010.

Denis Dutton

#Wall Quotes #Years Quotes #Bills Quotes

“The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions”
“If you're fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.”
“Self-awareness gives you the capacity to learn from your mistakes as well as your successes. It enables you to keep growing.”
“I am allergic to domestic goddesses. Men would prefer a woman with a dirty mind to a clean house.”
“I'm coming on home to you instead cause they're all too ugly tonight.”
“Build your inner environment. Practice Silence! I remember the wonderful discipline of the Great Ones. When we used to talk and chatter, they would say: "Go back into your inner castle." It was very hard to comprehend then, but now I understand the way of peace”
“You are the world's greatest, when you say you are.”
“The time is approaching when we shall consider it abhorrent to our civilization to allow a human being to die in prolonged agony which we should mercifully end in any other creature.”

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