Ramez Naam Quotes

The accumulated knowledge of materials, computing, electromagnetism, product design, and all the rest that we've learned over the last several centuries converts a few ounces of raw materials worth mere pennies into a device with more computing power than the entire planet possessed fifty years ago.

Ramez Naam

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KnowledgePowerRestDesignWorth

Youth is wasted on the young. And it doesn't even matter if you sit a young person down and tell them, 'You're so healthy, take advantage of it before it's gone!' They still can't hear it.

Jim James

YouthYouDownPersonHealthyYoung

Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories. Memories of dust in my sneakers and humming whitewalls down a hill called Monkey.

Jerry Spinelli

LifeMemoriesImaginationIdeasDown

I like making art that's useful to people who have a harder road. Art is a tool to get through it; it's a tool to prepare for the worst. By envisioning it in an artistic context, you can make sense of it before and after it happens.

John Cameron Mitchell

ArtPeopleRoadYouWorstPrepare

Everything you do has certain significance, a certain weight. I think there is a film in everyone.

Maximilian Schell

ThinkYouEveryoneEverythingFilm

They say death and taxes are the only things that are inevitable. The truth is, you can not pay your taxes. I've done it, and there's consequences, but it can be done. Death you're not going to get out of, and you kind of got to deal with it.

Steve Earle

TruthDeathTruth IsYouDoneKind

Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

Steve Prefontaine

MyselfAchievementBackDownOver

Entrepreneurs create value; I wanted to create ideas that became machines for making value.

Martine Syms

ValueIdeasCreateMachinesMaking

The religious fundamentalists of the Republican party are a mirror image of the religious fundamentalists of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.

Mona Eltahawy

MirrorBrotherhoodPartyEgyptImage

When I first got turned on to 'Purple Rain,' I was just moved by Prince's charisma and his just being free. Everything meant something, from the scream to falling on the ground to taking his shirt off. It just all meant something.

Luke James

RainFreePurpleFirstEverything

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Lord Byron

LifeLovePassionWomanManLove Is

If a terrorist group wanted to hit Britain, all they'd have to do is kill 100 random celebrities. The country would have a nervous breakown.

Chris Morris

RandomCountryNervousGroupWould

I would like to, at some point, do a cookbook.

Wylie Dufresne

PointCookbookWouldLikeSome

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