“Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect.” HomeMotivationBitsClearTerribleBehaviorConsequenceTestsHarderMotivatedBuriedLabsBad BehaviorControl Ourselves Author:Ben Marcus
“This is the inevitable consequence of a popular movie: you become the guy who wrote "the book that inspired the movie." Frankly speaking, I find it a bit insulting.” BookGuyBitsConsequenceInspiredInevitableInsultingPopular Movie Author:Sergei Lukyanenko
“Every bit of theorizing I've ever done, including my interest in Berg, has come as a consequence of discoveries I made as a composer and interests that I developed as a composer. I never thought of my theory as being a kind of irrelevant activity to my composing.” KindMadeDoneBitsInterestTheoryActivityDiscoveryConsequenceIncludingComposerIrrelevantComposing Author:George Perle
“The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.” IdeasLiteratureBitsNovelStudyFiveStudentsTerribleConsequenceProfessors Author:Donna Tartt
“The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable. Why now? Because the change is also exponential - small differences of yesterday can have suddenly shocking consequences tomorrow.” BitsDifferencesTomorrowConsequenceYesterdayAtomsShockingUnstoppableIrrevocableSmall DifferencesWhy Now Author:Nicholas Negroponte
“Everybody is exposed to radiation. A little bit more or a little bit less is of no consequence.” LittlesBitsLittle BitConsequenceExposedRadiation Author:Dixie Lee Ray