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Greg Egan Quotes

Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times.

Greg Egan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: australian
Birth: August 20, 1961

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Science Myself Flying Off Been Pop

One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well.

John Frankenheimer

Life Think My Life Listen Things

It is the desire of our hearts, and as we believe God's will under this dispensation, that all the children of God should be gathered together as such, and, consequently, as not of the world.

John Nelson Darby

God Children Together World Believe

We live in such a service-based, globalised economy where very few people actually make anything and the people who do make stuff... it's all part of a massive global supply chain. So what if all those chains were suddenly cut, how would you make something? How would you keep people alive? And that was something I wanted to explore.

Max Brooks

Live People You Alive Chains

I was really a nerd, and I was really more of a jazz nerd. So when I had my chance to put on something, most of the time it was going to be jazz, or gospel, or something like that.

Robert Glasper

Time Chance Jazz More Going Nerd

Actually, to be honest, this is a useful time to not be knowing what I'll be doing in 2013 or 2014, because really, for the last however many years, I've known what I've been doing for years and years ahead. You get into a cycle of non-reflection, and that gets a bit scary.

Stephen Daldry

Time Doing You Ahead Knowing Scary

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Stephen Leacock

Science Money Intelligence Enough

Studies indicate that most of young adults struggle to grasp even the most basic financial principles that will allow them to manage money and prepare for their future.

Ron Lewis

Future Money Struggle Financial Will

We need to encourage black women to know that they are authors of their own destiny, that they have important stories to tell, and that they are capable, so magically capable, of writing them and creating important pieces of work that will live forever in history.

Michaela Coel

Women Black Back Young Write Head

The vast majority of the guns in the U.S. are sold to white people who live in the suburbs or the country. When we fantasize about being mugged or home invaded, what's the image of the perpetrator in our heads? Is it the freckled-face kid from down the street - or is it someone who is, if not black, at least poor?

Michael Moore

Home Live People Black Someone Down

I think that capitalism in general is responsible, not for the worldwide recession, but for a lot of suffering, both in the United States and around the world.

Michael Moore

Suffering World Capitalism Think

What he has done for women is final: he gave to their service the best powers of his mind and the best years of his life. His death consecrates the gift: it can never lessen its value.

Millicent Fawcett

Life Women Service Best Death Value

People don't realize that the Obama Administration has been, if anything, harder on whistleblowers than the Bush Administration. Part of the reason is that they know that the response will be more muted because the traditional constituency supporting whistleblowers just happen to be the same constituency as Obama's.

Jonathan Turley

People Know Will More Reason Same