Genevieve Bell Quotes

#1. I believe that any great work of art is, in itself, a form of resistance against a sense of powerlessness.

Thom Yorke

#2. To know, to esteem, to love,-and then to part,
Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#3. This usually happens in the white-collar classes: These people take to worshipping pointlessness. Examples are Twin Peaks, Christo's artwork, and academic liberal politics. But a strange thing happens; these people view their ultra pointlessness as a way of being like God.

Noah Cicero

#4. I think one of the most interesting things about automation isn't on the practical side. I think it's about creating magic and wonder and moments of splendor.

Genevieve Bell

#5. This land carries people from different countries, different cultures, even different tongues, who even warred amongst themselves, but they are united over on only one cause; hate. The people of the Southern United States united in their hate against the free population of their previous slaves.

Max Connelly

#6. There are times when I get through the day by looking around the office and thinking, 'My God, aren't the natives here strange.'

Genevieve Bell

#7. At the age of 46, forgetfulness & confusion had become a daily aspect of life.

Steven Magee

#8. I write about two hours a day, and I write in fits and spurts - 45 minutes here, a half-hour there - and when I get stuck, which happens often, I take the dogs for a walk. But during the time when I'm not actually writing, I'm thinking.

Ellen Potter

#9. What makes us human is what is delightful

Genevieve Bell

#10. It's not good enough to just keep producing technology with no notion of whether it's going to be useful. You have to create stuff that people really want, rather than create stuff just because you can.

Genevieve Bell

#11. I don't need to know everything, I just need to know where to find it, when I need it

Albert Einstein

#12. I used to have all the Goosebumps books as a kid too.

Tom Felton

#13. Looks to me like you've been making garbage for a while and dragging it with you. Now you need to get out of here, and that garbage is weighing you down.

Walter Dean Myers

#14. I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book.

Mary MacLane

#15. To se someone really getting to know who they are is a beautiful, beautiful, thing.

Nancy Jo Sales

#16. Today's devices blurt out the absolute truth as they know it. A smart device in the future might know when NOT to blurt out the truth.

Genevieve Bell

#17. When I was in high school I experimented sexually. The experiment was to never have sex with anybody no matter how hard I tried. Success! Hypothesis confirmed.

Demetri Martin

#18. If you see a better world, you're morally obligated to create it

Genevieve Bell