Spencer Abraham Quotes

The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America.

Spencer Abraham

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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

Anatole France

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My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

Meghan O'Rourke

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I tell people the first time I decided to write a novel I was in my mid-20s, and it was, 'Well, it's time to see if I can do this.' I basically flipped a coin to see if I was going to write science fiction or if I was going to do a crime novel. The coin toss went to science fiction.

John Scalzi

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In general, when it comes to AI, many of us subconsciously cling to the selfish notion that humanity is the endpoint of evolution.

Steve Jurvetson

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If somebody tells you that you have ears like a donkey, pay no attention. But if two people tell you so, buy yourself a saddle.

Sholom Aleichem

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I was watching the Nina Simone documentary alone in my room, and I said out loud to myself, 'Why do we not know that this woman is beauty? She is beauty! Why did no one tell me this growing up? Why was her name not next to 'beauty' in the dictionary?'

Tracee Ellis Ross

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Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer.

Roberta Williams

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I'll continue on the path I've been taking, feet on the ground, describing people's lives, describing people's emotions, writing from the standpoint of the ordinary people.

Mo Yan

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I don't have anything new to say about teenagers.

Judy Blume

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There's something about my Mexican-American heritage... I'm proud of it.

Christian Camargo

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I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew to love the written word.

Ashwin Sanghi

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What we should care about is health - reduction of morbidity and mortality. Too often, we instead pay attention to whether something is 'normal.' A hospital may spend several million dollars separating a pair of conjoined twins, even though that separation is likely to leave them worse off.

Alice Dreger

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