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Chris Lavergne

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4,407 quotes curated by Chris Lavergne:

“Can you fall in love with a robot?”
— Natalie Morris, Forming romantic and sexual relations with robots 'will be widespread by 2050'
“Since going public in 1999, the company has been on a steady losing streak, posting losses year after year.”
— Dana E. Neutus, Salon Announces $5 Million Deal to Sell Itself to New Buyer | Subscription Insider
Tagged: Media Cliff Notes
“All of us who decide to start a company, we are kind of broken as people.”
— Alexis Ohanian, Reddit co-founder Ohanian: Glorifying extreme work schedules on social media is 'toxic' problem
Tagged: Founders, Starting A Company, Entrepreneurship
“The distortion of a remembered image may not only enhance its beauty with an added refraction, but provide informative links with earlier or later patches of the past.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions
Tagged: Memory, The Way We Play With The MInd
“Rowdies are never revolutionary, they are always reactionary. It is among the young that the greatest conformists and Philistines are found, e.g., the hippies with their group beards and group protests.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions
Tagged: Revolution, Understanding The reactionary
“I have no purpose at all when composing my stuff except to compose it. I work hard, I work long, on a body of words until it grants me complete possession and pleasure. If the reader has to work in his turn—so much the better. Art is difficult. Easy art is what you see at modern exhibitions of things and doodles.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions
Tagged: Artistic Creation
“Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only its own self to copy.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions
Tagged: Artistic originality, Creativity
“Learn to distinguish banality. Remember that mediocrity thrives on 'ideas.'”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions
Tagged: Too Much Thought, The World of Ideas
“If there seems to be an air of pretension among aficionados of jazz and classical music, psychological research is giving them good reason.”
— Hannah Sparks, Smarter people listen to instrumental music: study
“Love is more powerful than reason. We all know that.”
— Tyrion Lannister, Game of Thrones, Season 8: The Iron Throne
Tagged: Love, Reason