#gr

Giving consumers the choice of having it all in one big bite means different viewers are in many different places in the book, making it hard to discuss without spoiling the plot. The intervals between first-run programming provide a space for communion and that tantalizing sense of anticipation. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#between #big #bite #book #choice

Television is the original social network. Consumers love great television, but they also love talking about television. Sharing with friends the thrill of the last episode, debating what will happen next, working to enlist friends to watch the same shows that you love. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#also #consumers #debating #enlist #episode

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation. ↗

— Richard Powers

#doing #each #great #i #i am

Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living. ↗

— Richard Powers

#coding #computer #going #grad #i

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery. ↗

— Richard Powers

#condition #control #cultivating #face #forever

Never trust any complicated cocktail that remainds perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#clear #clouds #cocktail #complicated #goes

I once tried to make lace - which has been a great obsession of women - unsexy. And I achieved it. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#been #great #i #lace #make

Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#believe #jealous #nothing #something #those

As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#anything #become #earn #earning #get

Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#amount #been #deeply #even #given