Nick Harkaway Quotes

Steampunk appeals to the idea of uniqueness, to the one-off item, while every mainstream consumer technology of recent years is about putting human beings into ever more granular, packageable and mass-produced identities so that they can be sold or sold to, perfectly mapped and understood.

Nick Harkaway

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When push comes to shove, people vote alone.

Meles Zenawi

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I think of feminism as a socially just and imaginative world.

Suheir Hammad

WorldThinkFeminismJustI Think

History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel.

Simon Schama

TruthHistoryQualityPoetryYou

God created the races. He created different backgrounds and cultures. But He created them all to operate under His authority.

Tony Evans

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The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detectives and never let the smallest detail escape them. These small things are called by Scouts 'Sign.'

Robert Baden-Powell

SuccessSmall ThingsDetailSmall

What the mayors care about is, 'How can I get money to invest in the infrastructure in my city? How do we put people back to work, lower the unemployment rate, provide for job training programs? How do we make class sizes smaller and make investments in our children from an education standpoint?'

Michael Nutter

WorkEducationChildrenMoneyJob

I increasingly wonder whether most humans are in a constant state of unconsciously fearing each other. Perhaps they fear how intimately different other people might be to them, and the problem is that there is no real way of finding out just how huge that difference might be.

Michael Leunig

FearPeopleProblemFindingWonder

I'm trying to be the coach. My actors are my players. They're doing things that I'm too cowardly to do myself.

Derek Cianfrance

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India's prosperity is sectioned by geography, such as in Bangalore, where the information technology industry is prominent. Because they have a conduit out of India, competing in the world by the Internet, it's not regulated in corrupt ways, and it is very prosperous.

Clayton M. Christensen

TechnologyWorldInternetInformation

I interned at NASA for five years, and I grew up in Cape Canaveral, and my grandfather was an engineer on the Mercury capsule, and my grandmother was a software engineer. I literally grew up playing on the Mercury capsule prototypes.

Allison Schroeder

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When the student has her voice under complete control, it is safe to take up the lyric repertoire of Mendelssohn, Old English Songs, etc. How simple and charming they are!

Alma Gluck

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True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

William J. H. Boetcker

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