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The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth.
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Peace
Culture
Path
Diffusion
Earth
All Nations
Must
Follow
More
Than
Salvation
Nations
Appears
Ever
Universalist
Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.
Carlo Collodi
Time
Winter
Fire
Cold
Once
Those
Solid
Log
Firewood
Put
Piece
Make
Block
Cozy
Just
Common
Wood
Expensive
Warm
Rooms
Far
Thick
At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head. With a third, he landed on the stage.
Carlo Collodi
Leader
Stage
Back
He
Head
Invitation
Leap
Himself
Another
Pinocchio
Front
Orchestra
Loving
Landed
Found
Rows
Third
Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.
Carlo Collodi
Happiness
Saying
Free
Back
Out
City
Finding
Take
He
Road
House
Him
Himself
Fairy
Without
Pinocchio
Yes
Lovely
Fancy
Set
Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long.
Carlo Collodi
Hope
Time
Father
Long
All Night
Finding
Him
His
Spurred
Pinocchio
Being
Night
Save
When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.
Carlo Collodi
Poverty
Mischievous
Understand
Boy
Itself
Means
Even
Shows
The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes convenient.
Carlo Goldoni
Beautiful
Sometimes
Convenient
Blush
Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
Carlo Goldoni
Great
Accident
Characterize
Noble
Fortune
Bold
Actions
He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.
Carlo Goldoni
Half
Only
He
Sons
Himself
Leaves
His
Dies
Who
Image
A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.
Carlo Goldoni
Wise
Country
Own
Never
Traveler
I don't make deals, I make pictures.
Carlo Ponti
Pictures
Make
Deals
People talk about making art films - experimental films. I can make an art film every day of the week. Nothing to it. What's difficult is to combine a commercial film with art.
Carlo Ponti
Art
Day
Every Day
People
Nothing
Difficult
Every
Films
About
Week
Combine
Talk
Make
Making
Commercial
Experimental
Film
There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
Carlo Ponti
Work
Art
Will
Sense
See
Perfect
No Sense
No-One
Making
Go
Just
Create
Useless
Film
Like a tracer running through the veins of the city, networks of air quality sensors attached to bikes can help measure an individual's exposure to pollution and draw a dynamic map of the urban air on a human scale, as in the case of the Copenhagen Wheel developed by new startup Superpedestrian.
Carlo Ratti
Quality
Startup
Air
Draw
Scale
Running
City
Case
Networks
Attached
Individual
Through
Developed
Veins
New
Like
Wheel
Human
Pollution
Dynamic
Urban
Sensors
Bikes
Measure
Help
Exposure
Map
Copenhagen
The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.
Carlo Ratti
Day
Change
Every Day
People
Every
Promote
Some
Stays
Throwing
Bottle
Also
Still
Behavioral
Then
Show
Plastic
Away
One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.
Carlo Ratti
You
Water
Made
Fall
Those
Write
Developed
Opening
Like
Ideas
Got
MIT
Text
Pipe
Closing
Curtain
Patterns
Create
Show
Workshop
Images
Imagine
Makr Shakr aims to share this new potential - design-make-enjoy - with everyone in just a few minutes: the time taken to prepare a new cocktail.
Carlo Ratti
Time
Few
Cocktail
Aims
Everyone
Minutes
Potential
Share
Taken
New
Just
Prepare
When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.
Carlo Ratti
Day
You
Yourself
Every Day
Better
Will
Every
System
More
Throw
Bottles
Perhaps
Traces
Make
Around
How
Go
Dump
Efficient
Decisions
Moving
Ask
Then
Plastic
Trash
Away
As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google's traffic congestion maps.
Carlo Ratti
Time
People
Google
Browse
Networks
Talk
Real
Traffic
Text
Real Time
Urban
Them
Congestion
Capturing
Maps
Flows
We have this condition where digital technology is becoming increasingly smaller and distributed in the environment. In a certain sense, this is the first time ever we can describe a city in real time.
Carlo Ratti
Time
Technology
Digital
First
Sense
Increasingly
Digital Technology
City
Distributed
Environment
Smaller
First Time
Becoming
Real
Condition
Real Time
Where
Certain
Describe
Ever
I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.
Carlo Rubbia
Teacher
School
Mother
Engineer
Father
Local
Telephone
Born
Small
Small Town
School Teacher
Town
Italy
Electrical
Company
Elementary
Elementary School
March
As a boy, I was deeply interested in scientific ideas, electrical and mechanical, and I read almost everything I could find on the subject. I was attracted more by the hardware and construction aspects than by the scientific issues.
Carlo Rubbia
Construction
Everything
Find
More
Could
Almost
Almost Everything
Ideas
Attracted
Read
Scientific
Boy
Issues
Subject
Than
Interested
Aspects
Electrical
Mechanical
Deeply
Hardware
Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
Carlo Rubbia
Time
Science
Organization
Pure
First
Practice
Field
Research
Back
Tried
Joint
Idea
Attracted
Around
First Time
Effort
Moved
Where
Newly
Europe
European
Founded
Nuclear
In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.
Carlo Rubbia
Science
Big
Carefully
Preserved
Must
Individual
Ideas
Scientist
Role
Contributions
Original
Original Ideas
High-energy collisions have led to the observation of many hundreds of new hadronic particle states. These new particles, which are generally unstable, appear to be just as fundamental as the neutron and the proton.
Carlo Rubbia
Hundreds
States
Generally
Observation
Unstable
New
Particle
Particles
Led
Just
Which
Many
Appear
Fundamental
A distinction between renewable and not renewable energy is academic.
Carlo Rubbia
Energy
Distinction
Between
Academic
Renewable
Renewable Energy
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