Quotes about t
thinking machines astonishment
I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers. Arthur C. Clarke
technology long term
We over estimate technology in the short term and under estimate technology in the long term.
technology practice matter
Anything that is theoretically possible will be achieved in practice, no matter what the technical difficulties are, if it is desired greatly enough.
teacher children teaching
The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our children for their future, not our past...
technology years america
Mars is the next frontier, what the Wild West was, what America was 500 years ago. It's time to strike out anew....Mars is where the action is for the next thousand years....The characteristic of human nature, and perhaps our simian branch of the family, is curiosity and exploration. When we stop doing that, we won't be humans anymore. I've seen far more in my lifetime than I ever dreamed. Many of our problems on Earth can only be solved by space technology....The next step is in space. It's inevitable.
thinking rifles stage
One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it. Anton Chekhov
thinking artist people
My business is to be talented, that is, to be capable of selecting the important moments from the trivial ones. . . . It's about time for writers - particularly those who are genuine artists - to recognize that in this world you cannot figure out everything. Just have a writer who the crowds trust be courageous enough and declare that he does not understand everything, and that alone will represent a major contribution to the way people think, a long leap forward.
travel language feels
Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.
technology two perfect
One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll beproving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.
tree earth forests
Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
time men remember-you
Do you remember you shot a seagull? A man came by chance, saw it and destroyed it, just to pass the time.
ticklish looks placid
The more simply we look at ticklish questions, the more placid will be our lives and relationships.
time voice joy
Time will pass, and we shall go away for ever, and we shall be forgotten, our faces will be forgotten, our voices, and how many there were of us; but our sufferings will pass into joy for those who will live after us, happiness and peace will be established upon earth, and they will remember kindly and bless those who have lived before.
theatre conventions stage
I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage.
time thinking artist
It is time for writers to admit that nothing in this world makes sense. Only fools and charlatans think they know and understand everything. The stupider they are, the wider they conceive their horizons to be. And if an artist decides to declare that he understands nothing of what he sees - this in itself constitutes a considerable clarity in the realm of thought, and a great step forward.
time artist world
The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out, just as Socrates once admitted it, just as Voltaire admitted it.
two judging first-impression
we all have too many wheels, screws and valves to judge each other on first impressions or one or two pointers. I don't understand you, you don't understand me and we don't understand ourselves.
thinking people may
If there's any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
too-much stories enough
In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why.
two laughing phrases
[Ognev] recalled endless, heated, purely Russian arguments, when the wranglers, spraying spittle and banging their fists on the table, fail to understand yet interrupt one another, themselves not even noticing it, contradict themselves with every phrase, change the subject, then, having argued for two or three hours, begin to laugh.
thinking students should
I should think I'm going to be a perpetual student.
two judging first-impression
Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
thinking stones might
Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone.
thinking wind tree
Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
taken men thinking
You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am, nor will you in a million years... You just think I'm a mad person who has thrown his life away... Once the free spirit has taken hold of a man, there's no way of getting it out of him.
tired night two
I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one I spend the night with the other. Though it's disorderly it's not so dull, and besides, neither really loses anything, through my infidelity.
teacher artist actors
The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
trust believe people
You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
teacher book rivers
These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs.
talent human-nature brevity
Brevity - the sister of talent.
two creating goal
In a century or two, or in a millennium, people will live in a new way, a happier way. We won"t be there to see it - but it"s why we live, why we work. It"s why we suffer. We"re creating it. That"s the purpose of our existence. The only happiness we can know is to work toward that goal.
trying reason loses
Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
two categories criteria
I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me.