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Rodney Brooks Quotes

With the revolution around 1980 of PCs, the spreadsheet programs were tuned for office workers - not to replace office workers, but it respected office workers as being capable of being programmers. So office workers became programmers of spreadsheets. It increased their capabilities.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: australian
Birth: December 30, 1954

Topics

Revolution Office Capable Workers

I'm a longboard guy.

Whenever you're feeling grateful, you are not feeling frustrated and angry and all those negative states that we go into. And that's a big benefit in and of itself.

Grateful Angry Negative You Feeling

My mother is from another time - the funniest person to her is Lucille Ball; that's what she loves. A lot of times she tells me she doesn't know what I'm talking about. I know if I wasn't her son and she was flipping through the TV and saw me, she would just keep going.

Mother Son Time Keep Going Me Know

There's no way we can get to the bottom of Benghazi without David Petraeus.

Way Without Bottom Get David

Talk is cheap; play the game.

Jason Pierre-Paul

Game Play Talk Cheap Talk Is Cheap

We spend 364 days a year surrounded by people who kind of are our family, but we never really get to meet them or break through with them.

Family People Year Kind Meet Never

Either you look back and deal with your hypocrisy, or you dismiss it.

You Look Back Hypocrisy Deal Your

In general, when I watch cable news during the day, it's frustrating because it reminds me of a game show. If I want to watch 'The Price is Right,' I'll watch 'The Price is Right.'

Day Me Game Price News Want

I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport.

Love Sports Respect You Like Unless

I've been told that I might make a good producer because I am very Type A, and I'm kind of a control freak, so I've been told that that might translate well into producing, so I would certainly be open to trying my hand at that.

Good I Am Control Trying Kind Hand

I think that we're pattern-seeking animals, and what we like best is a story where everything fits together, where there's no puzzle pieces left over.

Best Together Story Puzzle Think

Literature is capable of being a subject that people want to catch up on or discuss, whether at a coffee shop or a watercooler. It can become an intrinsic part of their dialogue.

Mark Z. Danielewski

Coffee People Literature Want Become

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