Blaise Aguera y Arcas quotes

“This is taking [photos] from everybody - the entire collective memory of what the Earth looks like - and linking all of that together.”
-- Blaise Aguera y Arcas

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“[With Photosynth,] all of those photos become linked together, and they make something emergent that's greater than the sum of the parts.”
-- Blaise Aguera y Arcas

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“My attraction has never been to computers per se, but to the fact that they offer a highly leveraged way to invent magic.”
-- Blaise Aguera y Arcas

Source : "Bing adds features to try to gain on Google" by Dina Bass, www.sfgate.com. August 9, 2010.

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“It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.”

“Blaire, This was my grandmother’s. My father’s mother. She came to visit me before she passed away. I have fond memories of her visits and when she passed on she left this ring to me. In her will I was told to give it to the woman who completes me. She said it was given to her by my grandfather who passed away when my dad was just a baby but that she’d never loved another the way she’d loved him. He was her heart. You are mine. This is your something old. I love you, Rush”

“Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad.”

Source : "Composer Abel Korzeniowski on Sundance, Scores, Career". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. February 5, 2013.

“It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.”

“Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.”

“The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.”

“I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.”

“Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.”

“People, when they come up to me, are like, Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp? And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.”

Source : "Happy Endings' Adam Pally, on playing TV's least stereotypical gay guy". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. October 23, 2012.

“After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.”

Source : Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.36, Mondial