“I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of engineers to turn science fiction into reality.” WorldTryingHas BeensSelfRealityTurnsFictionClassTeamCarScience FictionSpendingDrivingEngineersGoogleWorld ClassProfessional LifeDriving Cars Author:Sebastian Thrun
“I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I'm really working on him about that.” YearsTurnsFallCarListeningRadioReactionsTurn-onAllergicAllergic Reactions Author:Aimee Mann
“I didn't understand NASCAR until I met some NASCAR fans. You talk to a couple of NASCAR fans and you'll see where a shiny car driving in a circle would fascinate them all day. And I can make fun of NASCAR fans, because if they chase me, I just turn right.” IfsI CanTurnsFunFansCarCoupleMetsDrivingCirclesNascarCar Driving Author:Alonzo Bodden
“We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and ease. We may have had some intuition that it was a binge and the earth couldn't support it, but aside from the easy things (biodegradable detergent, slightly smaller cars) we didn't do much. We didn't turn our lives around to prevent it. Our sadness is almost an aesthetic response - appropriate because we have marred a great, mad, profligate work of art, taken a hammer to the most perfectly proportioned of sculptures.” WorldFirstsMayArtEarthTurnsEasyHalfSupportTakenOur LivesSadnessCenturyCarMadResponseProsperityIntuitionEaseAppropriateWorks Of ArtAestheticConsumerismUnbelievableSculptureHammersOverconsumptionEasy ThingsBingeBiodegradable Author:Bill McKibben
“I want to be a race car passenger: just a guy who bugs the driver. Say man, can I turn on the radio? You should slow down. Why do we gotta keep going in circles? Can I put my feet out the window? Man, you really like Tide.” MenWantShouldHumorFunnyGuyTurnsRaceFeetCarWindowRadioCirclesDriversKeep GoingTidesSlow DownBugsTurn-onPassengersRace Car Author:Mitch Hedberg
“Main Street, U.S.A. is America at the turn of the century--the crossroads of an era. The gas lamps and the electric lamp--the horse-drawn car and auto car. Main Street is everyone's hometown- the heart line of America.” HeartAmericaTurnsLinesStreetsCenturyCarHorseErasGasElectricLampsHometownCrossroadsMain Street Author:Walt Disney
“Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief just happen for no reason other than happenstance--a car turns left instead of right, a train is missed, a call comes too late--and the real test of our humanness is whether, in light of that knowledge, we are ever able to recover. When we again find our way despite the inability to manufacture a deeper meaning in our suffering, that I think is when God smiles upon us, proud of the strength of his creation.” ThinkingWayRealSometimesReasonLightHappensAbleSufferingTurnsLeftGriefCarEventsCreationProudLateTestsTrainDeeperDespiteToo LateNo ReasonInabilityHumannessBereftHappenstanceDeeper MeaningHumanness Is Author:Neil Abramson
“Being a journalist, I never feel bad talking to journalism students because it’s a grand, grand caper. You get to leave, go talk to strangers, ask them anything, come back, type up their stories, edit the tape. That’s not gonna retire your loans as quickly as it should, and it’s not going to turn you into a person who’s worried about what kind of car they should buy, but that’s kind of as it should be. I mean, it beats working.” FeelsShouldKindMeanPersonsStoriesTurnsAsksTalkingCarStudentsTypeBeatsStrangerJournalismWorriedJournalistRetiringTapeLoanEditsCapers Author:David
“Marlee has said a million times, "Wouldn't it be funny if there was a camera trained on the two of us?" because we get involved in some very interesting situations. We'll be on a plane and she gets handed a Braille menu because they think she is blind, or producers that turn to the director of a show she's on and say, "Marlee Matlin is great, but is she going to be deaf for the whole show?" She used to freak people out with the speaker phone in her car by having me sign what they were saying on the speaker phone and then she would speak herself.” PeopleIfsThinkingSaidTwoWholeShowsUsedTurnsSpeakInterestingSituationMillionsCarInvolvedDirectorsCamerasBlindPhonesProducersPlanesFreakSpeakersDeafVery InterestingGet InvolvedMenusTwo Of UsBrailleInteresting Situations Author:Jack Jason
“Some drivers have already got out of their cars, prepared to push the stranded vehicle to a spot where it will not hold up the traffic, they beat furiously on the closed windows, the man inside turns his head in their direction, first to one side then to the other, he is clearly shouting something, to judge by the movements of his mouth he appears to be repeating some words, no one word but three, as turns out to be the case when someone finally manages to open the door, I am blind.” MenFirstsTurnsThreeSidesCasesDoorsCarMovementHe ManJudgingBeatsMouthsWindowBlindPreparedManageSpotsDriversVehicleTrafficOne WordShoutingStranded Author:Jose Saramago
“New York's the place where you can have a private life. You can do anything, be anything you please. New Yorkers mind their own business. Police cars, ambulances, fire engines - nobody even turns around for them. We go to the movies for excitement.” MindTurnsCan DoFireCarNew YorkPleasePoliceExcitementEnginesPrivate LifeNew YorkersOwn BusinessAmbulancePolice Cars Book:Time Off for Murder Source: Time Off for Murder
“When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself - no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites.” PeopleBelieveTwoHomeTurnsWonderCarPoliticianNineMinistersPrimePrime MinisterHypocriteDeputiesTwo Homes Author:William Hague
“Enterprising law-enforcement officers with a warrant can flick a distant switch and turn a standard mobile phone into a roving mic or eavesdrop on occupants of cars equipped with travel assistance systems.” LawTurnsCarStandardsPhonesOfficersLaw EnforcementAssistanceEnforcementMobileWarrantsMobile PhonesMicsEnterprisingRoving Author:Jonathan Zittrain
“When I was an adolescent, I was obsessed with having many commercial things, cars, clothes, stupid things. Now that I have all that, I understand that the superfluous things can turn to you into a very stupid idiot-type. In East Germany there were very few things, but there was also a feeling of solidarity that no longer exists. Now we are up to the neck in consumption, the ego, the individualism. Now before friendship, it is merchandise.” FeelingsTurnsCarStupidTypeEgoClothesEastIdiotObsessedGermanyNecksIndividualismConsumptionSolidaritySuperfluousStupid ThingsMerchandiseVery StupidEast Germany Author:Till Lindemann