#mer

My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#arms #arms race #attention #concern #controls

I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious. ↗

— William Peter Blatty

#aware #consciously #director #happen #i

The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#customer #fits #him #itself #know

Fairly early in my career, I had a passion for wine just as a consumer, and I started to learn about the whole process, starting with a piece of raw ground, and ending up with a work of art in a bottle. ↗

— Drew Bledsoe

#art #bottle #career #consumer #early

It's a really interesting and diverse business. You're a farmer first, then a winemaker, then you're onto marketing and distribution. So it's multi-faceted and really engaging. I've learned more in the last couple years than in the ten prior to that, so it's been pretty interesting. ↗

— Drew Bledsoe

#business #couple #distribution #diverse #engaging

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position. ↗

— Marcel Duchamp

#art #beauty #cannot #chess #commercialized

You know, nobody eats in England. Three or four pints of English beer a night fills you. I can't say I'm very impressed with the food in America. it's all sort of bland. Like turkey sandwiches. ↗

— Anne Dudley

#beer #bland #eats #england #english

My favorite show is America's Funniest Home Videos. People will get hit on the head and I feel bad cause I'm laughing my head off! ↗

— Corbin Bleu

#bad #cause #favorite #feel #funniest

One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'. ↗

— Carla Bley

#art #band #better #blues #could

Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows. ↗

— Georges Duhamel

#every #every day #fills #gentle #happy