#aw

I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common. ↗

— Stephen R. Donaldson

#common #dirt #i #i may not #lot

At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss. ↗

— Richard Dooling

#away #down #drag #forget #havoc

In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#already #away #borders #closer #conquest

Gooseberries should be mainstream berries! Why are chemically fattened strawberries a thing? Why not the delicious gooseberry? ↗

— Andrew Dost

#chemically #delicious #mainstream #should #strawberries

I quit comics because I got completely sick of it. I was drawing comics all the time and didn't have the time or energy to do anything else. That got to me in the end. ↗

— Julie Doucet

#because #comics #completely #drawing #else

Our people can draw on the tremendous strides made in recent years, not only in terms of advancing themselves spiritually and materially, but also in having weathered social and economic turbulence, triggered, in the main, by factors not of their own creation. ↗

— Denzil Douglas

#also #creation #draw #economic #factors

Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

#fear #makes #terrible #terrible thing #thing

It's a very smart and heartfelt movie and that's why, I think, we're all drawn to it. We really showed up for this with this collective idea that it was really ambitious, but we felt we all really had something to gain from it. ↗

— Robert Downey, Jr.

#collective #drawn #felt #gain #had

I'd rather be a cyborg than a goddess. ↗

— Hye Yeon Nam

#cyborg #haraway #post-human #art

After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#after #any #arrange #atoms #awful