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By 2009, computers will disappear. Displays will be written directly onto our retinas by devices in our eyeglasses and contact lenses. — Ray Kurzweil
In our family an experience was not finished, nor truly experienced, unless written down and shared with another. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God." — Arnold Bennett
The earliest language was body language and, since this language is the language of questions, if we limit the questions, and if we only pay… — Paulo Freire
It starts with the writer-it's a familiar dictum, but somehow it keeps getting forgotten along the way. No film-maker, irrespective of his electronic bag of… — Steven Spielberg
Once you have found the right shot to introduce the scene-written your first declarative sentence-then the rest flows. You've found the key to the whole… — John Huston
It was a joke, okay? If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn't have written it! — Marc Andreessen
Some of what these pamphlets [of astrological forecasts] say will turn out to be true, but most of it time and experience will expose as… — Johannes Kepler
You'd have thought they'd have been on about Sir Elton John, and the fantastic goals David has scored which have got us through to the… — Victoria Beckham
I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this… — Adolf Galland
In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature. — Carl Sagan
Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write… — Jeffrey Archer
That's an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much… — Winona Ryder
Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies. — Michael Schudson
The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes. — Vera Brittain
How wonderful is the human voice! It is indeed the organ of the soul. The intellect of man is enthroned visibly on his forehead and… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Much has been written about the loyalty of dogs, but what I love about them isn't their devotion to me so much as their devotion… — Steven Bauer
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work. — Ezra Pound
Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of… — Charles Baudelaire
One of my favorite albums of all time is Michael Jackson's "Thriller". Every song is superbly written, performed, and produced. He is a great loss… — Daryl Stuermer
Usability is not everything. If usability engineers designed a nightclub, it would be clean, quiet, brightly lit, with lots of places to sit down, plenty… — Joel Spolsky
Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Holdstock - are beautifully written. Geoff Ryman's 'The Child Garden' is… — David Gemmell
I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand. — May Sarton
Without the word dream, or the concept dream, and without the word blue and the emotions, I would have been really limited in the things… — Roy Orbison
The beauty of the written word is that it can be held close to the heart and read over and over again. — Florence Littauer

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