#yin

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

The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone - and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone - at night. That's the nucleus of the first story in my collection and it's also where the title came from for the book. ↗

— Paul Kane

#also #being #being alone #book #came

What we're saying now is you have a choice: You can stay, or you can go away. ↗

— Paul Kantner

#choice #go #go away #now #saying

Instead of focusing on my looks I focus on the character that I am playing. ↗

— Anil Kapoor

#character #focus #focusing #i #i am

I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives. ↗

— Mitch Kapor

#could #day #every #every day #figure

No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#environment #impact #massive #matter #new

A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#dreary #enthusiasm #just #kicked #lot

Although they might not admit it, I think girls are very aware of the impact that they're having. But they never feel it themselves, and it's impossible to explain. It's like trying to tell a blind person what yellow is. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#although #aware #blind #blind person #explain

There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#buying #character #him #i #loose

Conditions were so hard. To send the news out, telex was the only means, but telex was very rare in Africa. So if somebody was flying to Europe, we gave him correspondence to send after he arrived. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#after #arrived #conditions #correspondence #europe