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Atari always was a technology-driven company, and we were very keen on keeping the technological edge on everything. There's a whole bunch… — Nolan Bushnell Copy Share Image
Believe not because some old manuscripts are produced, believe not because it is your national belief, believe not because you have been… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
In this modern world of ours many people seem to think that science has somehow made such religious ideas as immortality untimely… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
From this, one can make a deduction which is quite certainly the ultimate truth of jigsaw puzzles: despite appearances, puzzling is not… — Georges Perec Copy Share Image
I made music on Seven the same way as on the other albums. I only used acoustic instruments... I'm looking for instruments… — Marie Daulne Copy Share Image
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Elvis Presley's talent brightened millions of lives. He widened the horizons of my world certainly. The first record I ever owned was… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is dependent on woman through his… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
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Lonesome Dove is a great book that had the rare fortune of being made into a great movie. And now, through Bill… — Stephen Harrigan Copy Share Image
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Ascension seemed at such times a natural law. If one added to it a law of completion - that everything must finally… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
A single thread of self generation ties the cosmos, the bios, and the technos together into one creation. Humans are not the… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
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It is wrong, and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws that… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
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In order that the relations between science and the age may be what they ought to be, the world at large must… — William Jay Youmans Copy Share Image
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