#log

Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do. ↗

— Dean Kamen

#everybody #future #live #participate #technology

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important. ↗

— Dean Kamen

#because #cases #caught #fact #forget

Dawn cackles as she guides me through the all-glass porch. Thinner, paler Reina shuffles about behind Dawn, watching as I slip my boots off. Although she tries to hide her hands, her fingers flicker nervously. I place my boots neatly on the floor of the porch beside the other pairs in the shadows under the coats. Music drifts through to us from a distant room – it’s the Beach Boys’ California Dreamin’. Dawn looks at me and I smile – they’ve put the record on for me. Dawn nods along happily. ‘Hear you’re a surfer boy!’ she says and she mimics riding a wave. ↗

— Amaya Ellman

#dark #dysfunctional-family #fear-and-suspense #fiction #psychological

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#artists #make #mythologies #objects

Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#form #geometric #i #kind #logic

One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#any #artist #believe #must #mythologies

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. ↗

— Mitchell Kapor

#drink #fire #getting #hydrant #information

If the opponent offers keen play I don't object; but in such cases I get less satisfaction, even if I win, than from a game conducted according to all the rules of strategy with its ruthless logic. ↗

— Anatoly Karpov

#cases #conducted #even #game #get

Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#chess #concentrate #environment #helps #how

Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering. ↗

— Leon Kass

#almost #biotechnology #cure #disease #enthusiastic