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They'll lead us bit by bit toward the revolutionary idea that we've grown about as powerful as it's wise to grow; that the rush of technological innovation that's marked the last five hundred years can finally slow, and spread out to water the whole delta of human possibility. But those decisions will only emerge if people understand the time for what it is: the moment when we stand precariously on the sharp ridge between the human past and the posthuman future, the moment when meaning might evaporate in a tangle of genes or chips.
bill mckibben— p. 198 (Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age (2003))
And then I saw the menu? It said 'chips with everything'.chips with every damn thing.You breed babies and you eat chips with everything.
Arnold Wesker— 1962 Chips with Everything act1, sc.2
The close-up says everything, it's then that an actor's learned, rehearsed behavior becomes most obvious to an audience and chips away, unconsciously, at its experience of reality. In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.
Marlon Brando— New York Times (July 2, 2004)
The United States economy is like a poker game where the chips have become concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, and where the other fellows can stay in the game only by borrowing. When their credit runs out the game will stop.
— Beckoning Frontiers (1951)
Please understand, I am not saying that technology is unimportant. I understand that technology is important. But if we are just focusing on technology and investing in an IT manufacturing plant to come up with higher performance processing [chips], we will not succeed.
satoru iwata— Kent, Steven L.. Nintendo's New Direction p. 3. GameSpy. Retrieved on 2007-03-03.
The whole concept of this band is to present the ugly truth about society – warts and all, and let the chips fall where they may.
marilyn manson— October 1996, Huh
Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity. The modern champions of communism have selected this as the time, and ladies and gentlemen, the chips are down — they are truly down.
Joseph McCarthy— Speech in Wheeling, West Virginia (9 February 1950), as quoted at History Matters.
Every speech, for Olivier, is like a mass of marble at which the sculptor chips away until its essential form and meaning are revealed. No matter how ignoble the character he plays, the result is always noble as a work of art.
Kenneth Tynan— "Laurence Olivier" (1966), p. 208
And then I saw the menu, stained with tea and beautifully written by a foreign hand, and on top it said…"chips with everything". chips with every damn thing. You breed babies and you eat chips with everything.
Arnold Wesker— Chips with Everything, Act 1 (1962)
We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place. Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.…Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this, culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, "And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?"
Alan Bennett— Diary entry for July 25, 1985, p. 144
The close-up says everything, it's then that an actor's learned, rehearsed behavior becomes most obvious to an audience and chips away, unconsciously, at its experience of reality. In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.
Marlon Brando— Marlon Brando, New York Times (July 2, 2004).
A carpenter's known by his chips.
jonathan swift— Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation, Dialogue II.
Once we know what we need to do, our nanotechnologies should enable us to construct replacement bodies and brains that won't be constrained to work at the crawling pace of "real time." The events in our computer chips already happen millions of times faster than those in brain cells. Hence, we could design our "mind-children" to think a million times faster than we do. To such a being, half a minute might seem as long as one of our years, and each hour as long as an entire human lifetime.
— Marvin Minsky (1994) Will Robots Inherit the Earth? in Scientific American
When the chips are down and the decisions are made as to who the candidates will be, then the 11th commandment prevails and everybody goes to work, and that is: Thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican.
— Ronald Reagan, in remarks in New York City at a Reception for Delegates to the State Republican Convention (17 June 1982), restating "The Eleventh Commandment" by California Republican Party Chairman Gaylord Parkinson, which Reagan first used in 1966.
A man being sued after a woman has more sex than intended is like Lay’s being sued after someone has more potato chips than intended. In brief, date rape can be a crime, a misunderstanding, or buyer’s remorse.
warren farrell— p. 312. (Part III: Government as substitute husband)
("Film" Chicken Little: Runt, are you alright?) No. You've gotta go on without me, commander. Just save me some ammo, a little water, some chips if you have them.
— Who: "Sci-fi" version of Runt of the Litter
— Source: Chicken Little (2005)
— Note: A character in a over-the-top science-fiction version of Chicken Little's encounter with the aliens. Apparently shot down by a alien ship, and says this over a ship intercom before dying.
