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I related to the whole hippie, acid-test confluence of the early Internet. The idea that we should be open and interoperate with our data resonated with me.
Stewart Butterfield
Me
Internet
Related
Our
Data
Open
Idea
Hippie
Confluence
Should
Whole
Early
Egypt was - as it is now - a confluence of cultures, as a result of being a crossroads geographically between Africa, the Middle East and Europe.
Ridley Scott
Result
East
Crossroads
Between
Cultures
Egypt
Africa
Middle
Being
Middle East
Confluence
Europe
Now
I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological.
Peter Coyote
Today
Time
Wonderful
Think
Extraordinary
Kids
Bad
Mythological
Feel
Simultaneously
Missed
Global
Were
Which
Confluence
Who
I grew up in Mobile, Alabama - somebody's got to be from Mobile, right? - and Mobile sits at the confluence of five rivers, forming this beautiful delta. And the delta has alligators crawling in and out of rivers filled with fish and cypress trees dripping with snakes, birds of every flavor.
Mike deGruy
Beautiful
Somebody
Every
Trees
Birds
Out
Alligators
Dripping
Rivers
Delta
Got
Fish
Snakes
Mobile
Up
Five
Grew
Confluence
Crawling
Forming
Flavor
Filled
Alabama
Right
Senior year in college, a kind of confluence of events came together to have me pursue a career in acting. I was planning on being a lawyer; I double majored in history and political science. I took the LSAT and did horribly on it, and that was one thing that made me rethink a new direction.
Matt Czuchry
Me
History
Together
Science
Events
Political
Made
College
Lawyer
Year
Took
Kind
One Thing
Horribly
Direction
Pursue
Rethink
New
New Direction
Came
Political Science
Did
Senior
Senior Year
Being
Confluence
Double
Acting
Planning
Thing
Career
Proust is interested in minutiae because life, as he sees it, is seldom ever about things but about our impression of things, not about facts but about the interpretation of facts, not about one particular feeling but about a confluence of conflicting feelings. Everything is elusive in Proust because nothing is ever certain.
Andre Aciman
Life
Feeling
Feelings
Nothing
Interpretation
Our
Elusive
Everything
Minutiae
About
Sees
Seldom
Facts
He
Particular
Because
Proust
Impression
Conflicting
Confluence
Interested
Certain
Ever
Things
You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.
Walter Isaacson
You
Culture
Computer
Know
Sort
Happened
Confluence
Things
It's a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. It's a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful.
Michael Bolton
Other
Lyrics
Melody
Something
Powerful
Combination
Without
Makes
Different
Confluence
Different Elements
Elements
Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a confluence of economic and financial turmoil such as we are now living through.
Timothy Geithner
World
Financial
Before
Living
Economic
Through
Never
Simultaneously
Been
Times
Hit
Modern
Modern Times
Confluence
Turmoil
Much
Now