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"We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works."
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"Thanks to the internet, you can provoke thoughts of those in mansions, from the uncomfortableness of your shack."
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"Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health."
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"They've never known a time when people drank rain water because it was pure, or could eat snow, or swim in any river or brook. The last time I drove to Washington the traffic was so bad that I could have made better time with a horse."
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"Social networking platforms drove man closer to those in neighboring continents, while driving him further apart from those in his neighborhood."
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"He decided not to ask for details. Better to avoid exposing his ignorance even further."
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"As more and more artificial intelligence is entering into the world, more and more emotional intelligence must enter into leadership."
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"Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice there is left for their own brains."
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"There are as many opinions as there are experts."
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"Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people."
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"I think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be camera-based, not Lidar-based. However, it is also possible that we do something jointly with Google."
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"I have detected disturbances in the wash.''The wash?''The space-time wash.''Are we talking about some sort of Vogon laundromat, or what are we talking about?''Eddies in the space-time continuum.''Ah...is he. Is he.''What?''Er, who is Eddy, then, exactly?"
Science
"The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
Flying
"Just because you see something, it doesn't mean to say it's there. And if you don't see something, it doesn't mean to say it's not there. It's only what your senses bring to your attention."
Awareness
"I'd far rather be happy than right any day."
Happiness
"What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day."
Happiness
"I'm a scientist and I know what constitutes proof. But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that."
Science
"Aberystwyth (n.)A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for."
Sentiment
"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea."
Science
"Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation - every sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition and their economic and social history from, say, one small piece of fairy cake."
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"There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again."
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