Connections Quotes - Page 36

• The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to program and there was no great demand for them at that time.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Government, United States, Machines

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• This is a wonderful book, unique and engaging. Diaconis and Graham manage to convey the awe and marvels of mathematics, and of magic tricks, especially those that depend fundamentally on mathematical ideas. They range over many delicious topics, giving us an enchanting personal view of the history and practice of magic, of mathematics, and of the fascinating connection between the two cultures. Magical Mathematics will have an utterly devoted readership.

  Barry Mazur

  Book, Unique, Views

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• Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. We sacrifice conversation for mere connection.

  Sherry Turkle

  Sacrifice, Caring, Technology

  "TED2012 live - day three from Long Beach". www.theguardian.com.

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• Technology is seductive when what it offers meets our human vulnerabilities. And as it turns out, we are very vulnerable indeed. We are lonely but fearful of intimacy. Digital connections and the sociable robot may offer the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship. Our networked life allows us to hide from each other, even as we are tethered to each other. We’d rather text than talk.

  Sherry Turkle

  Lonely, Technology, Seductive

  Sherry Turkle (2017). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.27, Hachette UK

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• Exploring Ecclesiology is true to its subtitle, being both vibrantly evangelical and admirably ecumenical; it is commendable for its depth, breadth, and erudition. Harper and Metzger's sympathetic engagement with Catholic ecclesiology is challenging and reciprocal. I especially appreciate how the authors emphasize and explore the vital connection between ecclesiology and eschatology, something very beneficial to readers seeking to better appreciate how living the Faith in community today relates to the hope of entering fully into Trinitarian communion in the life to come.

  Carl E. Olson

  Appreciate, Community, Catholic

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• Big Data allows us to see patterns we have never seen before. This will clearly show us interdependence and connections that will lead to a new way of looking at everything. It will let us see the ‘real-time’ cause and effect of our actions. What we buy, eat, donate, and throw away will be visual in a real-time map to see the ripple effect of our actions. That could only lead to mores-conscious behavior.

  Tiffany Shlain

  Real, Data, Maps

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• Many believe effective networking is done face-to-face, building a rapport with someone by looking at them in the eye, leading to a solid connection and foundational trust.

  Raymond Arroyo

  Believe, Eye, Networking

  "Five Mistakes to Avoid When Networking with Twitter" by Raymond J. Arroyo, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2012.

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• When two people respect each other, the ability to be vulnerable and to reveal hurt feelings can create a powerful emotional connection that is the source of real intimacy and friendship.

  David D. Burns

  Hurt, Powerful, Real

  David D. Burns (1999). “The Feeling Good Handbook”, Plume Books

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• It's that mind-heart connection that I believe compels us to not just be attentive to all the bright and dazzling things but also the dark and difficult things.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Believe, Heart, Dark

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• Love is not a matter of getting connected. It is a matter of seeing that we already ARE connected within an intricate web of relationships that extends throughout all life. It is a realization of 'no boundary' -- that we are all made of the same stuff, riding through time on the same spaceship, faced with the same problems in the world, the same hopes and fears. It is a connection at the core, that makes irrelevant skin color, age, sex, looks or money.

  Anodea Judith

  Sex, Love Is, Skin Color

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• To lose our connection with the body is to become spiritually homeless.  Without an anchor we float aimlessly, battered by the winds and waves of life

  Anodea Judith

  Anchors, Wind, Wave Of Life

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• Everyone always wants new things. Everybody likes new inventions, new technology. People will never be replaced by machines. In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy.

  Steve Carell

  Technology, Lakes, People

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• Compassion is ethical intelligence: it is the capacity to make connections and the consequent urge to act to relieve the suffering of others.

  Will Tuttle

  Compassion, Suffering Of Others, Ethical

  Will Tuttle (2007). “The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony”, p.35, Lantern Books

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• In writing, the connection between storyteller and audience is just as important. By using some subtle devices, a narrator can reach out to the reader and say, 'We’re in this together.'

  Constance Hale

  Writing, Important, Together

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• I’ve always liked edges, places where one thing becomes another…… transition zones, boundaries and borderlands. I like the mixing that happens, the juxtapositions, the collisions and connections. I like the way they help me see the world from a fresh angle.

  Philip Connors

  Mixing, Transition, World

  Philip Connors (2011). “Fire Season: Field notes from a wilderness lookout”, p.124, Pan Macmillan

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• As things get worse and the State seems powerless to help, the State will seem less and less legitimate. People will lose their moral connection to it. Laws will seem more like revenue traps and shakedowns. The state will start to seem more like another extortion racket, and, as in Mexico, people will have a harder time telling the good guys from the bad guys.

  Jack Donovan

  Law, People, Guy

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• Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth.

  Tom Ford

  People, Important, Earth

  Interview with John Currin, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 30, 2010.

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• Where do the really best laughs come from? Terrific connections made intellectually, or terrific revelations made emotionally.

  Del Close

  Laughing, Revelations, Made

  Charna Halpern, Del Close, Kim Johnson (1994). “Truth in Comedy: The Manual of Improvisation”, Meriwether Publishing

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• As I go through all kinds of feelings and experiences in my journey through life -- delight, surprise, chagrin, dismay -- I hold this question as a guiding light: 'What do I really need right now to be happy?' What I come to over and over again is that only qualities as vast and deep as love, connection and kindness will really make me happy in any sort of enduring way.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Happiness, Kindness, Journey

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Nov 28, 2013

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• It is on these (20min) walks that my best ideas come to me. It is while walking that difficult clarity emerges. It is while walking that I experience a sense of well-being and connection, and it is in walking that I live most prayerfully.

  Julia Cameron

  Ideas, Clarity, Difficult

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• It's tens of millions of calculations just to design one connection between a piece of structural steel and another piece of structural steel.

  Greg Lynn

  Motivation, Inspiration, Design

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• Nowadays anyone with a crap laptop and an Internet connection can sound their barbaric yawp, whatever it may be.

  Julie Powell

  May, Laptops, Sound

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• When the perceptive child of God stops to weigh the meaning of these words, then notes the connection in which they are found, he or she is driven to say, I must pray, pray, pray. I must put all my energy and heart into prayer. Whatever else I do, I must pray.

  R. A. Torrey

  Prayer, Children, Heart

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• When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible. Nevertheless, no one doubts that we are confronted with a causal connection whose causal components are in the main known to us. Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

  Albert Einstein

  Thinking, Order, Play

  Albert Einstein (2000). “Albert Einstein in his own words in two complete books: Relativity-the special and general theory; Out of my later years-the scientist, philosopher and man portrayed through his own words”

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• Allow me to add that it is my conviction that the contents of Der Stuermer as such were not (incitement). During the whole 20 years, I never wrote in this connection, 'Burn Jewish houses down; beat them to death.' Never once did such an incitement appear in Der Stuermer.

  Julius Streicher

  Years, House, Add

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