Recession-resistant development produces things people need. Unsustainable growth churns out tinsel products that consumers have to be seduced into buying - until times get tough, when they quickly give them up.
There's no point thinking, 'Well, my life's certainly worked out, I've got all the answers.' It would be wrong for me to say that I don't get seduced by certain things. That things don't become tempting.
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.
In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.
Self-delusion is one of the funniest things there is.
I'm an interior designer from the soul. It's not about just putting things in a room. It's much deeper and broader. It's about self-discovery.
I want to work on things that aren't self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing.
As historians write more and more histories, it's a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy that other historians read their histories and then make synthesis, and certain things just get forgotten and left out and neglected.
One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance.
Throughout my college years, I'd watch my sister squeal every Christmas as she unwrapped another 'Buffy' DVD set. I didn't know much about the series, but I was filled with that obnoxious self-importance that comes from having decided to be an Academic Who Reads Serious Things.
Being self-made means doing things your own way - and doing it without any handouts.
One of the key things is, when you look at semiconductor companies, it's all about experience.
One of the great things about working on C. elegans was the fact that it was transparent, and so when I first heard that seminar describing GFP, and realised, 'I work on this transparent animal, this is going to be terrific! I'll be able to see the cells within the living animal.'
We see chemistry, how the atoms are arranged in the molecules, how the disease changes the arrangement. Perhaps we will find which drug disentangles the aggregates that make a brain senile. Many of us are interested in such things.
Multi-touch sensing was designed to allow nontechies to do masterful things while allowing power users to be even more virtuosic.
There are a lot of things that we crave, there are a lot of things that would make us perhaps more fulfilled in a sensory way that we just say no to.
Boldness, sensuality and an unapologetic way of showing things, that is part of my films.
One of the things that happens when you write characters - and maybe this is my own sentimentality - is that I always find I have an instinct to protect them.
