![But interestingly its [Star City's] technology is all 1970s - still. In fact, it's alarming because you think, "You're not going to send someone up into space in something that old, are you?" But it works and it always has worked and it doesn't fail and it's incredibly reliable.](/assets/img/quote-photos/but-interestingly-its-star-citys-technology-is-all-1970s-still-in-fact-it.jpg)
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stars laughter flower
At one time I say to myself: "Surely not! The little prince shuts his flower under her glass globe every night, and he watches over his sheep very carefully . . ." Then I am happy. And there is sweetness in the laughter of all the stars. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
stars flower love-is
What did I care about my hammer, about my bolt, about thirst or death? There was, on one star, on one planet, on mine, the Earth, a little prince to be consoled! I took him in my arms. I rocked him. I told him, 'The flower you love is not in danger...I'll draw you a muzzle for your sheep...I'll draw you a fence for your flower...I' I didn't know what to say. How clumsy I felt! I didn't know how to reach him, where to find him...It's so mysterious, the land of tears.
stars businessman knows
How is it possible for one to own the stars?" "To whom do they belong?" the businessman retorted, peevishly. "I don't know. To nobody.
stars men light
All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travellers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems. For my businessman they were wealth. But all the stars are silent. You--you alone--will have the stars as no one else has them--
stars lying eye
When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with out-stretched arms, face to face with that hatchery of stars. Only half awake, still unaware that those depths were sky, having no roof between those depths and me, no branches to screen them, no root to cling to, I was seized with vertigo and felt myself as if flung forth and plunging downward like a diver.
stars ocean men
Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs.
stars sky water
A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out.
stars flower pride
I know a planet where there is a certain red-faced gentleman. He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at a star. He has never loved any one. He has never done anything in his life but add up figures. And all day he says over and over, just like you: 'I am busy with matters of consequence!' And that makes him swell up with pride. But he is not a man - he is a mushroom!
stars night bells
And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells ...
thinking fog snow
You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before you, and say to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do.'
thinking bigs hard
Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop. Beeban Kidron
thinking work-out people
People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well Bebe Neuwirth
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For the records I've work on over the last 10 years, I get sent the really compressed version and the non-compressed version, and oftentimes you end up going with the more compressed one because it's what people's ears are attuned to. I think the bigger problem is saturation and people being desensitized. Beck
thinking sound tape
I do think music sounds better when it's on tape and more simply recorded.
thinking trying fans
Sometimes, I think the way the music business has been destructive and the way the fans are been put through it and try to navigate through it, so much is so foreign to what musicians would actually want to do or what would be natural to them.
thinking europe interesting
I think it's interesting being American, the expectations for an American guy, and the image that has to be projected. 'Oh, I can't wear pink,' that kind of stuff. There's none of that in Europe.
thinking trying boring
I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.
thinking artist hair
I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
technology irony access
The irony is palpable - technical access has never been greater, cultural access never weaker.
technology guitar acoustics
Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic.
technology territory tools
When you use some of the more modern recording devices and Pro Tools, when you get into the technology, you are aching to get into some territory.
technology example company
History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies. Barry Ritholtz
technology rivers political
Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation? Barry Lopez
technology damage comfort
A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the most trivial conveniences and comfort. B. F. Skinner
technology artist stories
There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem. Billy Corgan
technology use facts
It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine. Carrie Snow
technology tools use
In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change. Beth Simone Noveck