When I see someone interesting on the subway - the lady with her new Bible or the delivery guy holding down a dozen Mylar balloons - my mind goes in two different directions. Where are they coming from? And where are they going?


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Robots have gotten steadily more capable, but humans' expectations that robots should have minds...
DAVID HANSON
If you read somebody's diary, you get what you deserve.
DAVID SEDARIS
College is a magic time. Yes, you're young and fickle, but you want to be part of this college e...
DAVID SZE
What I value most in my friends is loyalty.
DAVID MAMET
I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea ...
DAVID LACHAPELLE
Gribenes have been referred to as Jewish popcorn or kosher pork rinds. It's basically chicken sk...
DAVID SAX
Texas hold 'em is all about folding and waiting for that time that comes up every hour or two wh...
DAVID EINHORN
I spent most of high school working on the debate team, probably at some expense to my grades. Being...
DAVID EINHORN
During my freshman year at Cornell, I joined my dorm's intramural football team. At the first pr...
DAVID EINHORN
I rooted for the Milwaukee Brewers and its stars, Robin Yount and Paul Molitor. I went to a lot of g...
DAVID EINHORN
I've got a fantasy-baseball team with my brother. But I have to admit, he does all the work.
DAVID EINHORN
My father and grandfather were businessmen. The family business was Adelphi Paints in New Jersey. Wh...
DAVID EINHORN
There's more at risk in what happens in Microsoft than I could ever bet on a poker table.
DAVID EINHORN
On my best days, I fancy myself a combination of Dad's persistence/patience and Mom's toughn...
DAVID EINHORN
Both poker and investing are games of incomplete information. You have a certain set of facts and yo...
DAVID EINHORN
Language itself changes slowly, but the Internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you ...
DAVID CRYSTAL
I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.
LARRY DAVID
Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one coun...
DAVID HILBERT
Every spring, this country will be reminded of the Lady from Texas. As trees bloom and flowers carpe...
DAVID MIXNER
If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to ...
DAVID HALBERSTAM
I'm a good person, I hope. But I'm never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to...
DAVID TENNANT
I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest to live with, I ended up...
DAVID STRATHAIRN
A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit,...
DAVID LYNCH
Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in...
DAVID HOCKNEY
It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my fi...
DAVID HUME
Lion sounds that have not grown from the mouse may exude naked power... but cannot convey any wisdom...
DAVID WHYTE
The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.
DAVID HUME
Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.
DAVID HILBERT
But Dr. Smith says, and I believe it to be a true state of the case, that he himself gave a course o...
DAVID RITTENHOUSE
I played hockey in the winter, and then I would play golf in the summer. But I always knew I'd b...
DAVID HEARN
Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
DAVID HOCKNEY
Through the years I've been getting better and better and better, and it's what you learn th...
DAVID ORTIZ
'The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, b...
DAVID CHASE
I am more weary of life, I think, than ever I was.
DAVID BRAINERD
The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. T...
DAVID LEVITHAN
You can't take a knife on a plane anymore, but you can get on carrying a virus.
DAVID QUAMMEN
Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a wo...
LARRY DAVID
When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the street...
LARRY DAVID
I'm a walking, talking enigma.
LARRY DAVID
I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and le...
LARRY DAVID
I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
LARRY DAVID
When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these ...
LARRY DAVID
My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.
LARRY DAVID