Anne Sweeney Quotes

Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But SF can in principle deal with anything.

I believe there are so many other disciplines and themes that we still haven't explored yet. It's infinite what we can apply our creativity to.

If everything moves along and there are no major catastrophes we're basically headed towards holograms.

Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

As the TiVos and the Replays are coming into our world - and they're coming - it's better to - be inside the tent and figure out what they're doing and to work hand in hand with them as opposed to saying, 'You know what, the automobile is not going to work. I'm going to stick to my horse and carriage,' you know.

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.

Regulation needs to catch up with innovation.

I want to be able to do anything. I know it's probably not reasonable to expect, but that's what I'd like to do.

There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.

I believe that if we get out of people's way, the sky's the limit. The sky is the limit.

The sciences are being held back by assumptions that have hardened into dogmas, maintained by powerful taboos. I believe that the sciences will be regenerated when they are set free.

The most dynamic cities have always been immersed in the critical innovations of their time.

They're protecting an archaic industry. They should turn their attention to new models.

I never thought of myself as being limited to fashion. I'm a designer, and if you have a vision, you can apply that to anything.

I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.

We cannot have tomorrow’s miracles if we tie scientists’ hands with yesterday’s rules.

Breakthroughs are by definition unpredicted events. Therefore predicting breakthroughs is a particularly difficult business.

Everything that can be invented has been invented.

The ... progress of improvement and discovery ought not to be overlooked. ... Philosophy already directs her finger at sources of inexhaustible power. ... We are on the eve of mechanical discoveries still greater than any which have yet appeared.

Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.

As the life of George F. Kennan shows, individual, original thinking by one lonely person can sometimes illuminate and guide us better than all the high-level panels, commissions, and interagency meetings.

What seems impossible today, may half a century hence have become commonplace.

Thinking of possibilities is like driving a car on a freeway. You have an open road that stretches endlessly before you where your thoughts are not shackled. But when we say 'impossible,' we have already reached a dead-end in our minds. So dwell on possibilities to open up your horizon.

It really feels like VR has the possibility to be something really huge.