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Oren Etzioni Quotes

We have an obligation to figure out how to help people cope with the rapidly changing nature of technology.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: 1964

Topics

Nature Technology People Help Out

I practically lived in the woods when I was a kid, avoiding grown-ups and my dysfunctional family, pretending I was half-wolf, a feral child who napped in nests made out of ferns, ate wild blueberries, and wove sticks and feathers into her hair.

Jennifer McMahon

Family Child Hair Woods Feathers

I think the Internet was invented specifically to stop people finishing their books. And it does quite a good job. I don't have blocking software, though I could easily imagine needing it. I just don't do that stuff until I've got the words done for the day.

John Lanchester

Good Day Job Words People Think

On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling axis, and this in turn rested on the two people in the room.

People World Real Two People Turn

My uncle Randall always had a book in his hand. He read in the car, he read at restaurants, he read when you were talking to him. He read lots of different things, but mostly it was Louis L'Amour's westerns and contemporary thrillers.

Stephen Graham Jones

Car Book Talking You Uncle Hand

I started writing music when I was 15 in my bedroom, and I'd post them on MySpace, and from there it shifted to doing covers on YouTube and building my Twitter.

Music Writing Building Doing Bedroom

I never chose something just for the money.

Rithvik Dhanjani

Money Never Something Just Chose

Success has affected my self-definition in that I have more money. Writers pooh-pooh that idea, but it's a huge deal.

Success Money More Deal Idea Huge

Turkey hunting is my thing; it's only once a year, but if it's turkey season, don't call me, because I won't answer.

Me Year Hunting Answer Call Season

Everybody has culture, even white people have culture, but its different with me. So in high school, I was hanging out with the black and Hispanic kids. I'm not hating on white people. I hang with white people, too, but that's where I felt most accepted because I could relate to them more.

Culture School People Me High School

I don't see how you can write well if you're not reading well at the same time. I think the only risk is reading too many books of one 'type' in a row.

Time Reading Think You Risk See

The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need: it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden. As kids, we didn't complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could.

Life Day Rich Poverty You Every Day

All of my writing career is about how human beings negotiate dark matter.

Janette Turner Hospital

Writing Career Dark Matter Human

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