Paul Di Filippo Quotes

It was not until the appearance of cyberpunk in the 1980s that SF began to grapple in a broadly meaningful way with the reality of computers as something other than giant mainframes tended by crewcut IBM nerds.

Paul Di Filippo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 29, 1954

Topics

ComputersRealityAppearanceWayIBM

The little man is still a man.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

ManLittleStillLittle Man

Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it.

Meg Wolitzer

GoodHappyWritingGood WritingRead

My work shows how important it is that independent researchers should have access to data so that government statistics can be checked and so that the democratic debate within India can be informed by the different interpretations of different scholars.

Angus Deaton

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I like to begin every screenplay with a burst of delusional self-confidence. It tends to fade pretty quickly, but (for me, at least) there doesn't seem to be any other way to start writing a script.

Michael Arndt

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I grew up in a city - it's called Lawrence, Massachusetts. It's about half an hour north of Boston. When my parents got divorced, I moved to New Hampshire because my father worked up there.

Statik Selektah

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If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind.

Tom Wilson

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The U.S. has to realize it's got so much going for it. Let's just get ourselves to come together as a team - one team running the country, helping that country to get itself back on stable footing, which then cascades to the rest of the world.

Mary Callahan Erdoes

TogetherTeamWorldRestBackGoing

Where I grew up, in the Detroit area, there was a really good station. Sometimes you would hear songs for the first time on the radio, and if a really special song came on, somebody would turn it up, and everybody would just stop talking.

Mary Gaitskill

GoodTimeSongTalkingYouStop

When a film works, the director had a lot to do with that, but the director also didn't have a lot to do with that. There are so many moving parts. It's really about being open to how the river is flowing and trying to get on the river.

Mike Mills

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I kept turning down roles because I knew I just wasn't ready for them.

Dinah Manoff

DownReadyBecauseJustKnewRoles

In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth.

Denis Villeneuve

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There's no point doing a job where you're uncomfortable or doing something you dislike.

Bradley Walsh

JobDoingUncomfortableYouDislike

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