“I'm as guilty as anyone, because I helped to herald the digital era with Jurassic Park. But the danger is that it can be abused to the point where nothing is eye-popping any more.” YearsWarEyeDifferencesDangerYears AgoGuiltyErasParksDigitalPoppingJurassic Park Author:Steven Spielberg
“I've been wearing hearing aids for a long time. The technology available now is simply unbelievable. When I compare the new digital products to what we had 30 years ago, it's an amazing difference.... There was a time when I couldn't hear what most people said to me, most of the time. But with the hearing aids, I understand just about everything ... it really is very impressive.” PeopleYearsLongSaidDifferencesTechnologyProductsLong TimeYears AgoAvailableHearingAidsCompareDigitalUnbelievableImpressiveVery ImpressiveHearing Aids Author:Arnold Palmer
“Europe's financial system is fragmented, although the gap in funding costs for banks within the euro area is no longer as wide as it was two years ago. But in lending the differences are still very large, and in some countries the credit flow is disrupted.” YearsStillsTwoCountryDifferencesCostEuropeAreasYears AgoFlowFinancialCreditWideTwo YearsGapsFundingEuroLendingFragmentedFinancial SystemTwo Years Ago Author:Mario Draghi
“I had to tell about my colonic, which expresses the fact why I'm so neat today as opposed to a few years ago. I never knew that the weight made that much difference.” YearsMadeFactsTodayDifferencesYears AgoWeightNeat Author:James Brown
“I don't think that has ever changed. I don't think I see any more or any less than I did years ago. Let's say I have the print of a photo taken in the 1960s and one I took a month ago. I think it's pretty difficult to tell any difference, personally.” ThinkingYearsDifficultDifferencesTakenChangedMonthsYears AgoPrint1960s Author:William Eggleston
“But whether we want to do it because we want to have people to have a different idea of who we are or not, we do it naturally. So the way we construct our narrative is different from the way we constructed it a year ago. The difference is maybe very small or it may be huge.” PeopleWayWantYearsMayIdeasDifferentDifferencesHugeYears AgoNarrativeWho We AreConstructsDifferent Ideas Author:Antonio Damasio
“When the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly all those countries had burgeoning democracies, women were still being left out. The big turning point, about ten years ago, was moving from a notion of empowering women to actually looking at where you can make the most difference, and it's in a girl's life.” YearsStillsCountryBigsMovingGirlLeftDifferencesDemocracyWallTenYears AgoNotionEmpoweringEmpowering WomenBerlinTurning PointsLeft OutBerlin Wall Author:Kathy Calvin
“My wife and I went to jail in Selma. The difference when I was back there recently? White folks? No. Black folks who were not scared. I was behind the president this time. When I was a little boy and ran around with trifling dudes, I was the only one scared of dogs. And I was bitten 14 times! Dogs smell scared. And that's the same thing with people: 50 years ago they smelled fear. There was no fear this time.” PeopleYearsLittlesBlackPresidentDifferencesWhiteBehindsBoysWifeDogYears AgoFolksScaredSmellMy WifeRanJailNo FearLittle BoysTrifling Author:Dick Gregory
“Truthfully, everyone knows how to eat right. They know the difference between oatmeal and a jelly cream doughnut. They know how to walk. Everyone has this in their brain. When I started, we didn't have all this knowledge. Forty years ago, I lost my weight, but only by watching what I was eating.” KnowsYearsLostDifferencesWalksBrainKnow HowEatingYears AgoWeightFortyCreamJellyDoughnutOatmeal Author:Richard Simmons
“A few hundred years ago there were no differences between magic and medicine.” YearsDifferencesMagicHundredYears AgoMedicine Author:Joanne Harris
“I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn't happen 20 years ago.” ThinkingYearsHappensHoursDifferencesPartyTvsNewsYears AgoCycles Author:George H. W. Bush
“Any outside use of military power would at best furnish a temporary respite from the processes that we see playing out. We know that because we have been through all this before. The "surge" of several years ago was supposed to provide space and time for Iraqi political interests to work out their differences. 30,000 additional U.S. troops failed to lead to any working out of those differences, and the outcome is the mess we see today.” KnowsYearsHas BeensUseTodayPoliticalProcessInterestDifferencesSpaceMilitaryYears AgoIraqWork OutMessOutcomesTemporaryTroopsTime And SpaceMilitary PowerRespite Author:Paul R. Pillar