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I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live.
Sarah Kay
You
Matter
Live
Think
Tell
Instinct
Human
Where
Stories
Who
Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.
Sarah Kay
Great
Say
Something
Poetry
Poets
Had
Share
Did
Common
Wants
Storytellers
Storytelling
I have always liked coming home and sharing what has happened that day with my loved ones. I like comparing notes. I know other people do, too. I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live.
Sarah Kay
Day
Home
You
People
Matter
Live
Think
Too
Other
Tell
Sharing
Instinct
Like
Know
Liked
Always
Coming
Coming Home
Human
Where
Stories
Happened
Loved
Loved Ones
Notes
Who
Comparing
I have always been more comfortable with daredevil acts than with the everyday nuances of life. Let me jump out of a plane, speak in front of a roomful of strangers, even trek across Siberia.
Sarah Kay
Life
Me
Speak
Strangers
Trek
Everyday
Daredevil
Out
More
Comfortable
Always
Been
Jump
Than
Front
Roomful
Plane
Across
Even
Acts
Nuances
Siberia
In our dreams we are always young.
Sarah Louise Delany
Dreams
Young
Our
Our Dreams
Always
Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics.
Seth Lloyd
Life
Death
Law
Nothing
Except
Taxes
Certain
Thermodynamics
Second
What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.
Seth Lloyd
Society
Significant
Computers
Devices
Huge
Huge Amounts
Human
Human Beings
Happened
Information
Process
Which
Register
Themselves
Created
Beings
Species
Amount
Fraction
Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy.
Seth Lloyd
Memory
Matter
Space
Energy
Indeed
Must
Above
Take
Advantage
Calculation
Ultimate
Available
Turn
Full
Full Advantage
Laptop
In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances.
Seth Lloyd
You
Speak
Language
Atoms
Circumstances
Out
Compute
Make
Learn
Understand
How
Normal
Normal Circumstances
Order
Information
Process
Process Information
Figure
Every physical system registers information, and just by evolving in time, by doing its thing, it changes that information, transforms that information, or, if you like, processes that information.
Seth Lloyd
Time
You
Every
Changes
System
Evolving
Physical
Like
Doing
Just
Information
Processes
Thing
If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available.
Seth Lloyd
You
Better
Build
Universe
Everything
Potentially
Could
Computer
Powerful
Most
Most Powerful
Than
Wanted
Available
Including
All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of.
Seth Lloyd
Will
Thought
Define
Consists
Systems
Physical
Determine
Computation
Wishes
How
Information
Processing
Registering
View
Your
One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations?
Seth Lloyd
Digital
Research
Universe
One Of The Things
Computation
Performing
Like
Scientific
Scientific Research
Doing
Been
Question
Capable
Ask
Actually
Things
Recently
It's also a reasonable scientific program to look at the dynamics of the standard model and to try to prove from that dynamics that it is computationally capable.
Seth Lloyd
Try
Look
Also
Scientific
Prove
Model
Dynamics
Capable
Standard
Reasonable
Program
I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex.
Seth Lloyd
Universe
Complex
Would
Computational
Investigate
Merely
Also
Scientific
Metaphor
Explanation
Capacity
Reasonable
Why
Here
Suggest
Basis
Program
According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right where we're sitting right now, caused our galaxy to start collapsing around here.
Seth Lloyd
Matter
Fluctuation
Our
Slightly
Collapsing
Some
Perhaps
Around
Quantum
Caused
Years
Years Ago
According
Density
Model
Sitting
Maybe
Where
Little
Galaxy
Lower
Standard
Billions
Now
Right
Start
Here
On this day, so full for Americans of thoughts connected with their National Independence, we may not forget that Americans have yet other grounds for gratitude to the people of the Netherlands.
Seth Low
Day
Gratitude
Thoughts
People
Independence
National
Other
Netherlands
Forget
American
May
Full
Grounds
Connected
The United States of America have taken their name from the United States of the Netherlands.
Seth Low
States
Netherlands
Taken
Name
America
United
United States
United States Of America
We cannot forget that our flag received its first foreign salute from a Dutch officer, nor that the Province of Friesland gave to our independence its first formal recognition.
Seth Low
Independence
First
Gave
Our
We Cannot
Recognition
Foreign
Nor
Province
Salute
Officer
Forget
Flag
Dutch
Formal
Cannot
Received
Turnover can be one of the most expensive problems at a company.
Shawn Achor
Problems
Most
Expensive
Turnover
Company
You've probably noticed how when someone says hello or smiles at you, your automatic reaction is to say hello or smile back.
Shawn Achor
Smile
You
Back
Say
Says
Someone
Reaction
Smiles
How
Automatic
Noticed
Your
Hello
Taking a vacation can actually increase the likelihood of getting a raise or a promotion.
Shawn Achor
Increase
Promotion
Taking
Likelihood
Getting
Actually
Vacation
Raise
Too many people limit their happiness and success by assuming that taking time off from work will send a negative message to their manager and slow their career advancement.
Shawn Achor
Happiness
Success
Work
Time
People
Too Many People
Negative
Will
Slow
Too
Assuming
Advancement
Taking
Taking Time
Message
Limit
Off
Send
Manager
Many
Career
To be truly engaged at work, your brain needs periodic breaks to gain fresh perspective and energy.
Shawn Achor
Work
Needs
Perspective
Energy
Periodic
Fresh
Truly
Brain
Gain
Breaks
Engaged
Your
The idea of investing in the positivity of employees is often low down on companies' priority lists.
Shawn Achor
Employees
Down
Positivity
Investing
Idea
Priority
Often
Lists
Low
Companies
You spend money on Internet connection for your employees. Why not spend money on the energy that fuels their brains?
Shawn Achor
You
Money
Internet
Employees
Energy
Spend
Brains
Fuels
Your
Connection
Why
Why Not
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