#virtual

I started looking at small companies that were running a sort of virtual reality cottage industry: I had imagined that I would just put on a helmet and be somewhere else - that's your dream of what it's going to be. ↗

— Thomas Dolby

#cottage #dream #else #going #had

Cyber terrorism could also become more attractive as the real and virtual worlds become more closely coupled, with automobiles, appliances, and other devices attached to the Internet. ↗

— Dorothy Denning

#appliances #attached #attractive #automobiles #become

The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations. ↗

— Kit Bond

#american #american dream #american family #average #average american

You can find virtually everybody black back as far as the 1870 census. Why 1870? That's when the ex-slaves first have surnames. But if you find your great-great-grandfather in 1870 and it says he's 50, that means he was born in 1820 and you're back to 1820 already. For an American that's pretty damned good, you know? ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#american #as far as #back #black #born

At its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking stories... and that requires virtually no technology. ↗

— Steven Levitan

#core #down #full #job #people

Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It's the virtual opposite of what it takes to succeed in office. Squaring the circle takes a powerful combination of skills. But presidents who can campaign and compromise are generally the most successful. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#campaigns #circle #combination #compromise #generally

Exponential growth in access to the Internet, satellite television and radio, cell phones, and P.D.A.'s means that breaking news now reaches virtually every corner of the globe. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#breaking #cell #cell phones #corner #every

If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#accomplish #anything #beliefs #certain #certainty

Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#among #best #cannot #children #competitive

The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century. ↗

— Balthus

#century #craft #disappeared #evidence #hardly