A Quote by Richard Wilbur
The strength of the genie comes from being in a bottle.
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I want to find a genie in a bottle that can grant me three wishes. I want to be able to speak, read, write, and understand any language ever written or spoken, just any language throughout the history of man. That would be one of my wishes from the genie, so I would have to put "multilingual" on the resume, should I ever find the genie.
The encryption genie is out of the bottle.
The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
It's too late by the way, with virtual reality. You can't put the genie back into the bottle.
Everybody that wants to be successful should always be careful of what you wish for. A lot of artists and entertainers want to put the genie back in the bottle and wish they could go back to being what they were.
Then it was like a genie out of the bottle and it began to walk all on its own and in directions I did not want.
The electron, as it leaves the atom, crystallises out of Schrodinger's mist like a genie emerging from his bottle.
Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle.
I think the American people recognize that the world has shrunk. That it's interconnected. That you're not going to put that genie back in the bottle.
We should not be confident in our ability to keep a super-intelligent genie locked up in its bottle forever.
I have six-year-old fans that weren't even around for 'Genie in a Bottle' or even 'Fighter.'
Alcohol is a pervasive fact of life, but an extraordinary fact-pleasurable and destructive, anathematized and adulated, and deeply ambiguous ... the genie in the bottle.
I don't have any illusions that what we are doing is sticking the the bottle. I don't think that's what we are doing. We are trying to make sure that the genie has friends, has food to eat, a way to grow.
To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control.
The stupid and dishonest accountants allowed the genie of totally inappropriate accounting to descend on derivatives books. And once this has happened - people get status, etc. - it's impossible to get it back into the bottle.
In any discussion of technology, you hear the same argument: You can't turn the clock back and you can't put the genie back in the bottle. Maybe not. But there are steps we can take to limit the social harm caused by this industry, just like we do with others.
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