Karl Schroeder Quotes

Andy Clark refers to humans as 'natural-born cyborgs.' What he means is that we habitually extend and change our body-concept without even thinking twice about it.

Karl Schroeder

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: September 4, 1962

Topics

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One of the most important jobs of a great leader is to attract great talent.

Joe Lonsdale

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All American fiction could be classified as immigrant fiction.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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Actually, I've been a fanatical health nut for five years.

Jerome Hines

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In the context of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and a still-stagnant economy, President Barack Obama faces two important questions on energy transmission: a decision on the construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline and the question of increasing American natural gas exports. These are choices that will resonate from Crimea to Cove Point.

John Delaney

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To make something look real and alive, nothing can be symmetrical because nothing in real life is symmetrical. You have to make it look organic.

John Kricfalusi

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A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe and humans are the most important species, the supreme expression of creation.

Ann Druyan

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I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

Stephen King

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I've always been jealous of rappers, because they can fit so many words into a song and tell a story with lots of details. But when you're a songwriter, you have to fit the words to the melody and you can't fit as much in. I'm just a big fan of storytelling.

Skylar Grey

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War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.

Smedley Butler

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Modeling will slow down no matter who you are.

Trish Goff

SlowYouModelingDownWillMatter

No plan survives contact with the enemy.

Tommy Franks

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One of the first studies in the field of gender and language, by Don H. Zimmerman and Candace West in 1975, found that in casual conversations between women and men, women were interrupted far more often.

Deborah Tannen

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