- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Engineered Quotes
On what gets built, staged, or grown by design.
These engineered quotes span music production choices made for feel rather than polish, and public messaging built carefully for effect rather than spontaneity. A recurring theme is skepticism toward anything that looks too neatly Accept-ready.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of.
- Capabilities
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- Nov 07, 2020
I imagine a day, some time in the not too distant future when children and teenagers will be able to create their own genetically engineered machines, cure the diseases of the old and find new ways to build and extend the capabilities of humanity, moving from programming software to programing the physical world, through biology.
- Dawn
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the dawn of his administration, President Obama opined: 'A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency.' Magical rays of white-hot sunlight emanated from his media-manufactured halo. And then bureaucratically engineered darkness settled over the land.
- Crops
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- Nov 07, 2020
By themselves, genetically engineered crops will not end hunger or improve health or bolster the economies of struggling countries. They won't save the sight of millions or fortify their bones. But they will certainly help.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unlike the phone system, which is engineered around an application, the Internet layered model allows you to, in essence, separate applications from infrastructure.
- Anything
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- Nov 07, 2020
If anything, 'Fifty Shades of Grey' is a generic romance cynically engineered to appeal to the lowest common denominator of female fantasy.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy. I was raised Hindu.
- Flame
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- Nov 07, 2020
On 'Platinum Flame,' I engineered the beats myself, so I produced and engineered them. So this is getting even truer to myself, how I truly feel.
- Blame
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so soon in their tenure.
- Last
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- Nov 07, 2020
These characters are not spontaneous creations. They are engineered down to the last nut and bolt.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
A common misconception about how things such as space shuttles come to be is that engineers simply apply the theories and equations of science. But this cannot be done until the new thing-to-be is conceived in the engineer's mind's eye. Rather than following from science, engineered things lead it.
- Digital
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- Nov 07, 2020
Animated films are so precisely engineered - right down to forming lines of dialogue with words pulled from several different takes - how do you translate that spontaneity from the live-action to the digital realm?
- Later
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best engineered organisms can outpace others, even if they start smaller or later.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught.
- Exquisitely
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am deeply devoted to the 27,000 songs I can take anywhere on my iPod Classic as well as the exquisitely engineered MacBook Air on which I typed this column.
- Extended
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- Nov 07, 2020