"Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way. So, if all goes well, they're going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better biofuels. I guess that's better living through bugs."

Technology, Bugs, Eating, Living

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"Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way. So, if all goes well, they're going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better biofuels. I guess that's better living through bugs."

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"In terms of the Internet, it's like humanity acquiring a collective nervous system. Whereas previously we were more like a [?], like a collection of cells that communicated by diffusion. With the advent of the Internet, it was suddenly like we got a nervous system. It's a hugely impactful thing."

Elon Musk, American Entrepreneur

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"Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do."

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"In the short run, technology many be more efficient than man, but it will never be perfect. Every piece of equipment will eventually reveal an error code. In the long run, man will never be perfect, but prove to be more reliable than technology."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

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"A smartphone is an addictive device which traps a soul into a lifeless planet full of lives."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

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"Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it."

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"The easiest way to obtain an updated version of a candidate's CV is via SocialMedia."

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"Well, Naomi said cheerfully, "what's the worst that can happen? They were silent, considering that, because there were just so many possibilities. But in the end, it was a better idea than Facebook."

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"Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon."

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"There's this large trend - I think the next trend in the Web, sort of Web 2.0 - which is to have users really express, offer, and market their own content, their own persona, their identity."

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"Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way. So, if all goes well, they're going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better biofuels. I guess that's better living through bugs."

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"They've found a way to privately, or within a small family group, share expressions, or other images, drawings, and then gain access to some of the world's great expressions and images and make them real, make them tangible."

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"Green technologies - going green - is bigger than the Internet. It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century."

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