“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
“Life, by which I mean my life, is a great, or probably the greatest, design, from its very beginning to its end, the end that, I think, is unlikely to exist. Each and every bit of life is a part of the design. Design exists as the consequence of the ultimate questioner's vanity. And my mission is to find the most fundamental truth, which probably and exclusively involves the nature of the existence of the ultimate questioner.” ThinkingMeanEndsLife IsBitsExistenceDesignConsequenceUltimateFundamentalsMissionsVanityUnlikely Author:Kedar Joshi
“I think it's important for scientists to be a bit less arrogant, a bit more humble, recognising we are capable of making mistakes and being fallacious - which is increasingly serious in a society where our work may have unpredictable consequences.” ThinkingMayImportantBitsMistakeSeriousCapableConsequenceScientistHumbleMaking MistakesArrogantUnpredictable Author:Robert Winston
“I'd always loved the theater, and I began by writing plays. I work in the theater a lot in the UK, and I've worked in the theater out here quite a bit. Everything else - the films - followed as a consequence of that.” WritingPlayFilmBitsConsequenceTheater Author:Lucinda Coxon
“What really gets me is this - it's very ironic that those who are most critical of extra tax are those who are most vociferous in demanding extra expenditure. What gets me even more is that having demanded that extra expenditure they are not prepared to face the consequences of their own action and stand by the necessity to get the tax to pay for it. I wish some of them had a bit more guts and courage than they have.” ActionFacesWishBitsPayTaxesConsequencePreparedCriticalExtrasGutsIronicTaxationExpenditures Author:Margaret Thatcher
“Writing about sex at length is a bit like describing mastication at length. It's the causes and the consequences and the meaning of it that are interesting, not the anatomical descriptions.” WritingSexCausesBitsInterestingConsequenceDescriptionLengthDescribing Author:Richard Flanagan
“[Hillary] Clinton is too much into regime change and a little bit too aggressive without knowing what the unintended consequences might be. Yes, we could get rid of Assad tomorrow, but that would create another political vacuum that would benefit ISIS.” LittlesMightPoliticalBitsKnowingToo MuchTomorrowBenefitsLittle BitConsequenceClintonAggressiveRegimesIsisVacuumsAssadUnintended ConsequencesRegime Change Author:Bernie Sanders