- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
People Quotes
Quotes about people, privacy, and human nature.
This page collects quotes touching on people in different senses - novelists describing how characters take on independent vitality, and technologists warning how easily people's movements and data can be tracked. It's a broader mix than a single theme, much like Like Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come to believe models are real and forget they are only models.
- Devote
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people.
- Opportunities
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- Nov 07, 2020
Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.
- Better Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like people who are working on practical things and who are working in teams. It's not so important to get the glory. It's much more important to get something that works. It's a better way to live.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful applications for mathematics. All I do, really, is the math, and other people have the ideas.
- Big Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have big, big problems - flooding, earthquake, and many foolish things which now people are doing - I mean, these self-made catastrophes. We are able to give to every man on the street the possibilities to help himself. And to fight for this was one of my duties.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My architectural drive was to design new types of buildings to help poor people, especially following natural disasters and catastrophes... I will use whatever time is left to me to keep doing what I have been doing, which is to help humanity.
- Nov 07, 2020
I keep saying I'm not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020