#liar

And that because the moving parts are a million times smaller than the ones we're familiar with, they move a million times faster, just as a smaller tuning fork produces a higher pitch than a large one. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#familiar #faster #fork #higher #just

Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#expect #familiar #new #new technology #part

I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album. ↗

— Mel Torme

#hit #hit single #i #liar #lovely

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. ↗

— Mark Twain

#children #contempt #familiarity #familiarity breeds

Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate. ↗

— Stephen Tobolowsky

#fact #hate #like #more #peculiar

I'm not very interested in charting a day-to-day familiar reality. I'm always looking for territory in which to explore the BIG subjects, the life-or-death stories. ↗

— Rose Tremain

#big #charting #day-to-day #explore #familiar

I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#based #because #business #doctor #early

I'm not really all that familiar with comic book culture. ↗

— Christoph Waltz

#comic #comic book #culture #familiar #i

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#backwards #became #century #command #companion

For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#contribute #decisions #familiar #good #good work