- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like Quotes
Quotes on what people like and why.
These quotes explore liking something, or coming around to it later - one describes disliking Jane Austen before eventually appreciating her work, while another reflects on early interest in mathematics over computers. Related browsing includes Know Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Call
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in putting on airs. I call it like I see it.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Books are such quiet things - created in silence, read in silence - yet publishing a book has become a very noisy business. I've been noisy, too. I felt like I had to be in order to connect with my readers.
- Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not intimidated by puerile boys acting like pre-teens.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People imagine that programming is logical, a process like fixing a clock. Nothing could be further from the truth.
- Nov 07, 2020
Our relationship to the computer is much like our relationship to the car: rich, complex, socially messy.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When knowledge passes into code, it changes state; like water turned to ice, it becomes a new thing, with new properties. We use it, but in a human sense, we no longer know it.
- Compromise
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the little semi-competencies of human beings, I realize. Governance, after all, is a messy business, a world of demi-solutions and compromise, where ideals are tarnished regularly.
- Nov 07, 2020
I like mysteries.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like the idea that Facebook controls how people express themselves and changes it periodically according to whatever algorithms they use to figure out what they should do or the whim of some programmer or some CEO. That bothers me a great deal.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time I got writing 'Halcyon,' I was on a roll, and I realized I had so much to write about, I realized I had so much built up inside that I couldn't really alleviate before, and then all of a sudden it was like reservoir burst.
- Exclamation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I joined an improv comedy group. Ours was named 'Quick Fire!' with an exclamation point. It was when I auditioned for that team and got on it and felt like... I'll just say I felt like I was good at it.
- Nov 07, 2020