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• Health care can be made more affordable for the poor without requiring major new scientific developments, just the smart application of current technologies. We have seen a $25 incubator and diagnostic instruments that are built tough, cheap, and reusable for the developing world.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Technology, Development, World

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• I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Beauty, Work, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If something is as smart as you, do you treat it differently if it isn't a human?

  Neill Blomkamp

  Treats, Humans, Ifs

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

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• We need to be smarter than our smart phones and realize the people we are with are more important than the people we aren't with, and way more important than the strangers we hope will tweet and like and share and Instagram whatever we're sending out into the cybersphere.

  Regina Brett

  Phones, People, Important

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• Now that we've transitioned to more Smart TVs, where people are broadcasting their cable box, I hope that Geek & Sundry is something that people will click on in the future, knowing that they're going to get content that they love.

  Felicia Day

  Knowing, People, Tvs

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• I do find some of the meanest, most exclusionary people are the nerds. And they rebel against other nerds! What are you doing? As much as I love nerds and the nerd movement, the nerd-on-nerd violence is really bad. A lot of times, nerds are the meanest ones online. And also, the trolling can be very extensive because they're smart.

  Chris Hardwick

  People, Nerd, Rebel

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• Truly smart technologies will remind us that we are not mere automatons who assist big data in asking and answering questions.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Technology, Data, Asking

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• As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Technology, Risk, Behavior

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• In business, standards establish the rules of the game, creating path dependencies as investments are made and corresponding designs are set in stone and plastic. Inferior standards can prevail due to smart marketing or industry collusion.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Creating, Games, Design

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• Look at something like cooking. Now, you would hear a lot about smart kitchens and augmented kitchens. And what do those smart kitchens actually do? They police what's happening inside the kitchen. They have cameras that distinguish ingredients one from each other and that tell you that shouldn't mix this ingredient with another ingredient.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Cooking, Police, Kitchen

  "Op-Ed: There's An App For Everything, And That's A Problem". Interview with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. March 4, 2013.

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• When we can commit a crime, we can also trigger debate. Cases go to courts. Media start covering the cases. But once you build smart environments where, if you meet a certain probabilistic profile, you won't even be allowed to board a bus, let alone commit a crime, we're perpetuating existing laws so they face no challenges or revision.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Media, Law, Challenges

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• Would you like all of your Facebook friends to sift through your trash? A group of designers from Britain and Germany think that you might. Meet BinCam: a 'smart' trash bin that aims to revolutionize the recycling process.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Thinking, Groups, Germany

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• I think there are two aspects to smart environments. One is information embedded in places and things. The other is location awareness, so that devices we carry around know where we are. When you combine those two, you get a lot of possibilities.

  Howard Rheingold

  Thinking, Two, Information

  "Is That a Computer in Your Pants?". Interview with Jesse Walker, reason.com. April 1, 2003.

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• Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy. He knows there's a painful side; he knows my thumb smarts and his girlfriend has a bruised breast and the doctor is losing his glasses, but he won't let the pain blot out the humor no more'n he'll let the humor blot out the pain.

  Ken Kesey

  Running, Girlfriend, Hurt

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.128, Hamilton Books

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• Where is it written that houses must be beige? Any dun colored house would look better if painted pineapple, cream, ochre, or even a smart sage.

  Frances Mayes

  House, Pineapples, Looks

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• You forget all of it anyway. . . You forget who was cool and who was not, who was pretty, smart, athletic, and not. . . You forget all of them. Even the ones you said you loved, and even the ones you actually did. They’re the last to go. And then once you’ve forgotten enough, you love someone else.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Athletic, Lasts, Forget

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• Was he smart enough? Introspective enough? Was it just enough to love him, or should I attach myself to someone who seemed farther ahead of me, someone smarter and more ambitious than me, who'd be sure to carry me along into the version of adulthood I thought I should be striving for?

  Caroline Knapp

  Ambitious, Enough, Strive

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• Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• We walk the brink of racial suicide because we were smart enough to make atomic bombs and stupid enough to use them.

  David Zindell

  Suicide, Real, Stupid

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• And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer.

  John Green

  Class, May, Being Smart

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.32, Penguin

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• and she's a nurse. do you know how hard nursing school is? it's like medical school. so she's obviously smart.

  Augusten Burroughs

  School, Nursing, Nurse

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “Possible Side Effects”, p.93, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• We went sailing one time, and he wore a Speedo, and any smart woman should know that means bisexual at least.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Mean, Bisexual, Sailing

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.39, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Is that a bulletproof vest? See, now that's so insulting. That's like saying I'm not smart enough to shoot you in the head." Eddie DeChooch

  Janet Evanovich

  Bulletproof Vest, Insulting, Vests

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• Elizabeth is smart, ruthless, and emotionally damaged ... [i]f Elizabeth's brain was a person, it would have scars, tattoos, and be missing one eye.

  Max Barry

  Tattoo, Eye, Missing

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• Speed eliminates all doubt. Am I smart enough? Will people like me? Do I really look all right in this plastic jumpsuit?

  David Sedaris

  People, Doubt, Looks

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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