#posing

But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#corollary #freedom #generate #how #imposing

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either. ↗

— Brian Eno

#afterwards #again #composing #either #gardener

Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#am #funded #i #i am #ignored

You hear a lot of horror stories about proposing and things going horribly wrong - it went really, really well and I was really pleased when she said yes. ↗

— Prince William

#going #hear #horribly #horror #i

I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#come #composing #formula #i #myself

It's claustrophobic, and I think it is to do with the amount that we're exposing people to one particular point. ↗

— Sean Booth

#claustrophobic #exposing #i #i think #particular

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you? ↗

— Fanny Brice

#forget #know #later #pose #posing

Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste? ↗

— David R. Brower

#consumption #convenience #doubling #energy #energy consumption

I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it. ↗

— John Chamberlain

#imposing #interested #material #me #more

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#strength #values #wisdom