Us Quotes
47542 quotes by 14169 authors
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New technology is changing the way we can film. It's enabling us to get fresh new images and tell brand new stories.
— Karen Bass
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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
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We're letting [technology] take us places that we don't want to go.
— Sherry Turkle
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The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.
— Sherry Turkle
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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
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Haiti allowed us to glimpse into a future of what disaster response might look like in a hyper-connected world.
— Paul Conneally
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Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say,…
— Clay Shirky
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Before the Internet, coordinating more than 100,000 people, let alone paying them, was essentially impossible. But now with the Internet, I've just shown you a…
— Luis von Ahn
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Each and every one of us has a vital part to play in building the kind of world in which government and technology serve the…
— Rebecca MacKinnon
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The only legitimate purpose of government is to serve citizens, and ... the only legitimate purpose of technology is to improve our lives, not to…
— Rebecca MacKinnon
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The click [of a light switch] is the modern triumphal clarion proceeding us through life, announcing our entry into every lightless room.
— Ben Katchor
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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
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It's not good enough for us to have generations of kids that ... look forward to a better version of a cell phone with a…
— Burt Rutan
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We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies…
— Edward Dahlberg
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Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not only enables us…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom…
— Richard Baker
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In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst…
— Albert Camus
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Non-comprehenders are often distressed. Not you, though-because with good humor you're blessed. After all, your thoughts went like this, I dare say: It was none…
— Albert Einstein
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I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn't caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there's a thought that isn't…
— Byron Katie
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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
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