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My mother and my father were illiterate immigrants from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could go to a… — Kirk Douglas
Computers get better faster than anything else ever. A child's PlayStation today is more powerful than a military supercomputer from 1996. — Erik Brynjolfsson
We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy. And so from social networks to sociable robots, we're designing technologies that will give us the illusion of… — Sherry Turkle
The transistor was a small plastic unit that would take us from a world of static bricks piled on top of each other to a… — Ayah Bdeir
At Mach 20, we can fly from New York to Long Beach in 11 minutes and 20 seconds. — Regina E. Dugan
I began to see my body like an iPad or a car. I would drive it and demand things from it. It had no limits.… — Eve Ensler
Those of us of a certain age grew up expecting that by now we would have Rosie the Robot from 'The Jetsons' in our house.… — Juan Enriquez
When I look out in the future, I can't imagine a world, 500 years from now, where we don't have robots everywhere. — Rodney Brooks
It's not going to be just humans colonizing space, it's going to be life moving out from the Earth, moving it into its kingdom. And… — Freeman Dyson
This is taking [photos] from everybody - the entire collective memory of what the Earth looks like - and linking all of that together. — Blaise Aguera y Arcas
Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him… — Arthur Koestler
I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel… — Mahatma Gandhi
Technology is very seductive, and it is certainly changing the way things are designed and made and taught. The problem is when technology has seduced… — Arthur Ganson
In meditation, once you are gone in, you are gone in. Then, even when you resurrect you are a totally different person. The old personality… — Rajneesh
Do you know that the words meditation and medicine come from the same root? Meditation is a kind of medicine; its use is only for… — Rajneesh
Meditation is an insight that all goals are false. Meditation is an understanding that desires don't lead anywhere. Seeing that... And this is not a… — Rajneesh
We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles, we exhaust the… — Edward George, Baron George
Any time one person makes an effort to contact a deeper part of him or herself, balance his or her emotions, and deflect the stress… — Howard Martin
In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not… — Agnes Repplier
Generally we waste our lives, distracted from our true selves, in endless activity. Meditation is the way to bring us back to ourselves, where we… — Sogyal Rinpoche
Meditation gives us peace of mind without a tranquilizer. And unlike a tranquilizer, the peace of mind that we get from meditation does not fade… — Sri Chinmoy
When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world. Your… — Eckhart Tolle
Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration. — Nhat Hanh
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. — Seneca the Elder
I never thought I'd play soccer past high school, so to go from that team to actually being most-capped and three World Cups is pretty… — Cobi Jones

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