Electromechanical Devices Quotes & Sayings

They were now their own unavoidable experiment, and were making themselves into many things they had never been before: augmented, multi-sexed, and most importantly, very long-lived, the oldest at that point being around two hundred years old. But not one whit wiser, or even more intelligent. Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since, dogs when we had been wolves. But also, despite that individual diminuation, finding ways to accumulate knowledge and power, compiling records, also techniques, practices, sciences
possibly smarter therefore as a species than as individuals, but prone to insanity either way ... — Kim Stanley Robinson

Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club -the community of speakers of that language. — Frank Smith

I've always been really picky about roles and make a point of reminding myself that it's not about the money - because, obviously, there's a lot of money to be made in this business if you're willing to do anything. — Zooey Deschanel

I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy. — Bertrand Russell

Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events. — Benjamin Franklin

Success is not about what you do, it's about you feel about what you do. — Alexandra Silber

I like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff. — Adam McKay

Some of the best ideas come from sheer discovery, and not by some masterminded, preconceived genius. — Spike Jonze

Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives. — Jean-Francois Lyotard

People would stop me in the street - my demographic tends to be the elderly Jewish women from Miami; I think they tend to fancy me as someone that would've been good with their daughter or something - and a lot of them will do the wrist-slapping thing. "Oh, you're a terrible man! Just terrible!" And I'm, like, "Well, it's just a show. I'm just playing a character." — Peter Jacobson

Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate . . .'73 — Elaine Pagels