Rony Quotes

#1. Obese patients who try to reduce their weight by semi-starvation, as Rony noted, will always be fighting what he called their "spontaneous impulses of eating and activity." Once they give in to these impulses, which is effectively preordained, they will get fat again.

Gary Taubes

#2. When Rony discussed positive energy balance, he compared the situation with what happens in growing children. "The caloric balance is known to be positive in growing children," he observed. But children do not grow because they eat voraciously; rather, they eat voraciously because they are growing.

Gary Taubes

#3. What I like about South Florida is there's a good quality of life here; the cost of living is much lower than Silicon Valley.

Rony Abovitz

#4. We treat human biology as our center point. Everyone already has a head-mounted display. It's your head!

Rony Abovitz

#5. For cool things to happen, you have to get out of your comfort zone.

Rony Abovitz

#6. We cannot instantaneously force ourselves to forgive - and forgiveness happens at a different pace for everyone and is dependent on the particulars of any given situation.

Sharon Salzberg

#7. We want to bring people back to normal human social relationships. Your digital stuff can be there, but it doesn't have to take over your whole world.

Rony Abovitz

#8. With Magic Leap, your brain doesn't distinguish what's real and what's Magic Leap. Because as far as your brain's concerned, it is real.

Rony Abovitz

#9. There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British.

David Mamet

#10. Imagine you are walking in China, and all the billboards are in English. And at the restaurants, as the people are talking to you, there are live subtitles. You don't even realize you are in a computer; it's just happening.

Rony Abovitz

#11. South Florida's international connections mean there's a different kind of innovation here. We're able to intersect with a lot of brilliant people who are not associated with Silicon Valley.

Rony Abovitz

#12. In our industry, there are so many competing companies and games, and they have people constantly out spying on competition. For example, Valve in Seattle tries to keep their location a secret.

Rony Abovitz

#13. [He] had riposted with the proper metaphysical statements, yet he was disturbed.

Robert Silverberg

#14. For me, life has either been a wake or a wedding.

Peter O'Toole

#15. Courage is standing still even though you want to run. Courage is planting yourself and turning towards the thing that scares you, whether it's your leg or your friends or the guy who could break your heart again. It's opening your eyes and staring that fear down.

A J Betts

#16. We want the digital world to bend to your physical life, your real emotional life as a person, and we don't want you to bend to computers.

Rony Abovitz

#17. I hated the goggles, don't get me wrong, but I felt naked without them. Almost like playing without a helmet.

Eric Dickerson

#18. I grew up with 'Star Wars,' not 'Star Trek.'

Rony Abovitz

#19. We believe the future of computing should be natural.

Rony Abovitz

#20. What kind of shapeshifter has orange fur anyway?" "Weredingo." Now I'd seen everything. Well, at least he didn't steal my baby.

Ilona Andrews

#21. Who knew, when you were watching the Verizon ad and the guy said, 'Can you hear me now,' that was really just a mic check for the Obama administration.

Rick Perry

#22. The desire of your vital being is towards work. And the vital being won't find any interest in yoga so long as you do not have any experience of the higher and fuller life that is in yoga. As long as this experience is not there, the vital being will not find any interest.

Sri Aurobindo

#23. When you are doing something neat, and you're doing it with neat people, and there is that convergence, something amazing will happen.

Rony Abovitz

#24. may the odds be ever in you favour

Suzanne Collins

#25. We need somebody with a proven track record of competence, leadership and what you see is what you get.

Anna Soubry

#26. We shouldn't be surprised if this kind of stoicism is of no interest whatsoever to the news, for it has sound commercial incentives for overemphasizing our vulnerability.

Alain De Botton

#27. You don't believe in heaven? A nun?'
'If you don't, why should I?'
'If you did, maybe I would.'
'If I did, you would not have to.

Don DeLillo

#28. My dad and my mom convinced me to go into biomedical engineering because they said astronauts going to Mars will need life support systems.

Rony Abovitz

#29. I hope to build not the largest film and media studio in the world, but perhaps one of the coolest and also the most inclusive.

Rony Abovitz