#ted

What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#amount #beings #computers #created #devices

Cancer is the great equalizer. Everyone is affected by it either themselves or through loved ones. ↗

— Andrew Lo

#cancer #either #equalizer #everyone #great

I think Nina Simone has had an amazing journey. She was spicy and she had attitude and she didn't care, she wanted her money in a paper bag and don't mess with me and I've been doing some research on that so. ↗

— Nia Long

#attitude #bag #been #care #doing

I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy. ↗

— Richard Linklater

#been #doing #everyday #everyday life #find

Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times. ↗

— Richard Linklater

#been #disappointed #fact #faith #intelligent

All the things that most kids hated, I loved. I loved that things were asked of me and that, much to my surprise, I was able to do them. I loved the 10 o'clock bedtime. I loved the responsibility. ↗

— Laura Linney

#asked #bedtime #clock #hated #i

I could have gone to the gym for three hours a day and bought into all that, but I just wasn't interested. ↗

— Laura Linney

#could #day #gone #gym #hours

I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress. ↗

— Laura Linney

#ever #father #grew #i #manhattan

I've always been interested in the outsider. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#been #i #interested #outsider

When I read Copland, I really wanted Stallone's part. ↗