Alison GopnikDesign If you wanted to design a robot that could learn as well as it possibly could, you might end up with something that looked a lot like a 3-year-old. – Alison Gopnik Design Quotes Learn Quotes Looked Quotes Lot Quotes Robot Quotes I attended Art & Design High School, and at one point, you had to write about what you wanted to be when you grew up. I wrote that I wanted to be a writer for ‘Mad’ magazine. I went to high school in Ellicott City, Maryland, and I felt pretty ambivalent about the whole thing. It just took time away from my doing things on the Internet – like creating clans in Quake II or starting a Web design nonprofit. In school, I was just a kid. Online, I had authority.
George Packer Everyone finds justification for his or her views in logic and analysis, but a personal philosophy often emerges from some archaic part of the mind, an early idea of how the world should be. – George Packer
Sudha Kongara I loved Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘Zero Dark Thirty;’ my favorite films are ‘The Godfather,’ ‘Kill Bill: Volume 2’… I dig Tarantino’s works. – Sudha Kongara
Annie Lowrey Recycling, cutting back on driving, and changing out old light bulbs for energy-efficient ones might save half a ton of carbon a year. A household going car-free, flight-free, and vegan – changes impractical, if not outright impossible, for many families to make – might reduce emissions by four tons a year. – Annie Lowrey
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