Currents Quotes - Page 38

• The amount of information that can be stored by the ultimate laptop, 10 to the 31st bits, is much higher than the 10 to the 10th bits stored on current laptops.

  Seth Lloyd

  Information, Laptops, Higher

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• Right now the producers of 'Modern Family' have no idea how many people watch our show each week on all platforms, and nobody seems to want to tell us. If a disproportionate number of any show's viewers watch in alternative ways, then, under the current system, that show may not appear to be as strong as it actually is.

  Steven Levitan

  Strong, Ideas, Numbers

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life.

  Donald Miller

  Nice, Rivers, Easy

  "Donald Miller, Christian Iconoclast". Interview with Joshua DuBois, www.thedailybeast.com. May 19, 2013.

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• I've been accused countless times of writing gloomy futures. But to me, the texture of my sci-fi just feels like an extrapolation of current trends.

  Richard K. Morgan

  Writing, Texture, Trends

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• Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.

  Robert Metcalfe

  Reality, Organization, Visionaries

  "The Visionary Thing". www.wired.com. November 01, 1999.

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• The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation.

  Clara Zetkin

  War, Fighting, Weapons

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• Pay attention, my young friends: to go against the current; this is good for the heart, but we need courage to swim against the tide. ... We Christians were not chosen by the Lord for little things; push onwards toward the highest principles.  Stake your lives on noble ideals, my dear young people!

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Heart, Young Friends

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.41, SPCK

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• This is why I believe that many of our current eschatologies, intoxicated by dubious interpretations of John’s Apocalypse are not only ignorant and wrong, but dangerous and immoral.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Believe, Ignorant, Dubious

  Brian D. McLaren (2009). “Everything Must Change: When the World's Biggest Problems and Jesus' Good News Collide”, p.144, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we're tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.

  John Ortberg

  Jobs, Thinking, Facts

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• John Carmack, who has become interested in focusing on things other than game development at id, has resigned from the studio. John’s work on id Tech 5 and the technology for the current development work at id is complete, and his departure will not affect any current projects. We are fortunate to have a brilliant group of programmers at id who worked with John and will carry on id’s tradition of making great games with cutting-edge technology. As colleagues of John for many years, we wish him well.

  Tim Willits

  Cutting, Technology, Years

  "Doom Creator John Carmack Officially Leaves id Software". Interview with Mitch Dyer, www.ign.com. November 22, 2013.

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• It seems to me that our problem has a lot less to do with the mechanics of solar power than the politics of human power—specifically whether there can be a shift in who wields it, a shift away from corporations and toward communities, which in turn depends on whether or not the great many people who are getting a rotten deal under our current system can build a determined and diverse enough social force to change the balance of power.

  Naomi Klein

  People, Community, Balance

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events.

  Bob Feller

  Reading, Trying, Events

  "For Feller, Navy was easy decision". Interview with Mary Buckheit, www.espn.com. November 12, 2009.

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• The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.

  Richard A. Clarke

  Media, Achievement, Causes

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• I think people enjoyed LA Law so much, because it was the first show that delved into current events through the prism of the law.

  Harry Hamlin

  Thinking, Law, People

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• Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.

  Ralph Ellison

  Crush, Art, Men

  Ralph Ellison (2011). “The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated”, p.133, Modern Library

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• It was a show where you were given a quote out of current events and you had to identify who said it. I was reading eight newspapers a day and had compiled a file of about 300 quotes. I really had to do my research. The White House press didn't have to bone up on any of it.

  June Lockhart

  Reading, Eight, White

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• First, the oil and gas business pays its fair share of taxes. Despite the current debate on energy taxes, few businesses pay more in taxes than oil and gas companies. The worldwide effective tax rate for our industry in 2010 was 40 percent. That's higher than the U.S. statutory rate of 35 percent and the rate for manufacturers of 26.5 percent.

  John S. Watson

  Oil, Energy, Pay

  "CNN Newsroom" with Carol Costello, www.cnn.com. May 12, 2011.

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• I know that plenty of folks have issues with Social Security, but I'd urge them to confront it on its own terms. Calling it a Ponzi scheme is misleading and does more to cloud the issue than it does to illuminate it. And yes, I do know that unless changes are made, the current system is unsustainable. But that doesn't mean it's fraud.

  Mitchell Zuckoff

  Mean, Issues, Clouds

  "Color of Money Book Club". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. January 29, 2009.

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• Men turn to formal wear when they want a new job or when they think their current one is in danger. They try to present themselves as powerful and successful.

  Peter York

  Jobs, Powerful, Successful

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• There is a broad cultural current that conveys the idea that a film is like a football team, it represents a nation, it is illustrated literature, filmed radio. These are outdated concepts, totally out of touch with today's realities.

  Jean-Jacques Annaud

  Football, Team, Reality

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• I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.

  Adam Clymer

  Writing, Would Be, Littles

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• Civil servants are fully aware of the challenges the British economy faces. They are, after all, working tirelessly and professionally to support the coalition government through the current challenges, every day, and in every part of Britain.

  Gus O'Donnell, Baron O'Donnell

  Government, Support, Challenges

  "The civil service is not full of fat cats" by Gus O'Donnell, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2010.

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• The nexus between terrorism and nuclear weapons, or even nuclear material, is obviously a current concern.

  Mitchell Reiss

  Nuclear, Weapons, Terrorism

  "Interview with State Department Policy Planning Director Mitchell Reiss". Interview with Paul Kerr and Miles Pomper, www.armscontrol.org. April 9, 2004.

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• All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Progress, Society

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.416, Knopf

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• Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current towards the open seas.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Opportunity, Wind, Sea

  "The Divine Milieu". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1960.

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