- Mad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Matter Quotes
On what actually counts.
This page starts with a striking reframe of confinement as something that can happen mentally even to people who are physically free, and pairs it with career advice about simply landing that first entry-level role. For related thinking, see Life.
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- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't see anything changing about our desire for quality and fuel efficiency and safety and smart design, no matter what the vehicle size.
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's tough, no matter how good your technology is, to police every single comment coming up.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Forecasting our futures is built into our psyches because we will soon have to manage that future. We have no choice. No matter how often we fail, we can never stop trying.
- Capitalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every economy exists, no matter what the level of democracy, has elements of crony capitalism. It's - given human nature and given the democratic structures, which we all, I assume, adhere to, that is an inevitable consequence.
- Fluctuation
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is rather fantastic to realize that the laws of physics can describe how everything was created in a random quantum fluctuation out of nothing, and how over the course of 15 billion years, matter could organize in such complex ways that we have human beings sitting here, talking, doing things intentionally.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not aware of any sensible theory of how classical gravity could interact with quantum matter, and I can't imagine how such a theory might work.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Relativity can, for instance, explain that the universe had once been clumped into a dense fireball. But it can never explain how matter actually behaved.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I liked the idea of all of humanity fitting inside a sugar cube because more than 99.9% of matter is space.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The humanities have been forced to disguise, both from themselves and their students, why their subjects really matter, for the sake of attracting money and prestige in a world obsessed by the achievements of science.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how big the audience is going to be. I'm interested in doing things that are fun.
- Encouragement
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- Nov 07, 2020
Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have one of those Garmin watches, and I'm OCD about downloading my runs no matter where I go. I used it on an 18-mile run in Paris, a 12-miler in the mountains of Montana, a couple of runs in the Bahamas. Wherever I am, I try to run. That's what's so great about it.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020