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Edward M. Lerner Quotes

The biggest fatal flaw in most fictional portrayals of nanotech - what sends those books arcing across the room - is ignoring that the nanobots need energy to do... anything.

Edward M. Lerner

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: 1949

Topics

Energy Need Room Anything Ignoring

Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space.

Melissa Rosenberg

Patience Challenge Space Gift You

I was lucky enough myself to have been in Dad's Army for an episode.

John Leeson

Myself Army Enough Lucky Been Dad

You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life.

Maurice Sendak

Life Me Believe You Know She

I make movies for teenage boys. Oh dear, what a crime.

Michael Bay

Movies Crime Make Dear Oh Teenage

I think it's just in human nature: if you've got two guys fighting, and you don't really know them, you're going to root for the guy who comes from your country.

Michael Bisping

Nature Think Fighting Human Nature

I wanted to be a monk at some time in my life, or a priest, so there was a kind of reflex quite early on not to be attached to anything that might be taken away.

Stephen Hough

Life Time My Life Early Kind Monk

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

Sophocles

Live Someone Growing Old Growing Old

As Americans, we're not sure we share values. We're sometimes even afraid to use the word 'values.' We talk about teaching ethics in schools - people say, 'What ethics? Whose ethics? Maybe we can't.' And they confuse that with teaching of religion.

Rudy Giuliani

Religion Ethics People Values Say

I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.

Doris Lessing

City Thought London Possible Never

Everybody claims they have relatable, connectable characters, but those claims often aren't true.

David Walton

True Everybody Those Characters

Despite my love affair with skyscraper heels, luckily for my feet I rarely wear them - preferring, instead, the comfort and child-handling practicalities of a pair of trainers.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

Love Feet Comfort Heels Wear Affair

I love solving puzzles, I love finding my way around obstacles, and I love learning new things about technology.

Kevin Mitnick

Love Learning Technology New Things