Quotes for All
Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth, because they unleash cascades of complementary innovations, like lightbulbs and, yes, factory redesign. Erik Brynjolfsson
The majority of American writers today have chosen passive non-resistance to things as they are, producing sloughs of poetry about their personal angst and anomie, cascades of short stories and rivers of novels obsessed with the nuances of domestic relationships – suburban hanky-panky – chic boutique shopping mall literary soap opera. When they do speak … Read more
So before I start work on a book, I’m like a pregnant mole – I obsessively tidy and order my closets and everything in my study. Because there’s such a cascade of images and ideas that I’m grapping with mentally, I couldn’t also be in a chaotic setting. Diane Ackerman
In order to make a perfect and beautiful machine, it is not requisite to know how to make it. All the works of human genius can be understood in the end to be products of a cascade of generate-and-test procedures that are, at bottom, algorithmic and mindless. Daniel Dennett
The strength of women and women’s rights around the world are especially important because that affects children and families. And the cascade effect is remarkable. Cindy McCain
On reflection, some things do super well because they hit with the time. Some things do super well because they are able to activate a kind of echo chamber or bandwagon or cascade – they didn’t particularly hit with the time. Some things are just too astonishingly good to not hit the top. Those three … Read more
You look tired, Rachel told Jason. I wish I could jog and sleep at the same time. Can’t you? Ferrin asked, joining them at the little cascade. I always imagined that you could sleep rolling down a mountainside in a barrel. I probably could today, Jason conceded. Brandon Mull
What a vindication of the belief that ordinary people can do extraordinary things, what a reminder of what Bobby Kennedy once said, about how small actions can be like pebbles being thrown into a still lake, and ripples of hope cascade outwards and change the world. Barack Obama
There is a continual exchange of ideas between all minds of a generation. Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt the truths discovered by the powerful intellects for the multitude. It is like a spiritual flood, like a gush that pours into multiple cascades until it forms the great moving sheet of water that stands … Read more
I expect to retire to a fine-grained heaven where the temperatures are always consistent, where the images slide before one’s eyes in a continual cascade of form and meaning. Ansel Adams