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I collect travel alarm clocks. I was in a flea market in France once, in 1994, and I opened up this beautiful Jaeger-LeCoultre folding eight-day winding clock folded into a beautiful case, and I went, 'Wow, man.' And I've been collecting travel alarm clocks since 1994.

~Alec Baldwin

Topics: Alarm Beautiful Been Case Clock Clocks Collect Collecting Flea Folded France Man Market Once Opened Since Travel Up Winding Wow

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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

~Ben Jonson

Topics: Back Clocks Engine Forget His Keep Make Motion Sun

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I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.

~Ben Katchor

Topics: Always Clocks Depend Never Public Stores Strange Watch Wore

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You can have your own watch and always doubt it. If I had a watch I'd probably always be doubting it or the batteries would be dying. I just know that people always have trouble with their watches, and that's why I like public clocks.

~Ben Katchor

Topics: Always Batteries Clocks Doubt Doubting Dying Had Just Know Like Own People Public Trouble Watch Watches Why Would You Your

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What interests me about clocks is that everything is hand-made, and yet to the person looking at the clock, something magical is happening that cannot be explained unless you are the clockmaker.

~Brian Selznick

Topics: About Cannot Clock Clocks Everything Explained Happening Interests Looking Magical Me Person Something Unless You

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If you have pendulum clocks on the wall and start them all at different times, after a while the pendulums will all swing in synchronicity. The same thing happens with heart cells in a Petri dish: They start beating in rhythm even when they're not touching one another.

~Bruce Lipton

Topics: After Another Beating Cells Clocks Different Different Times Dish Even Happens Heart Pendulum Rhythm Same Same Thing Start Swing Them Thing Times Touching Wall While Will You

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Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such mundane objects as electric meters, alarm clocks, home refrigerators and thermostats, video cameras, bathroom scales, and Christmas-tree lights - all of which are, or soon will be, accessible remotely.

~Charles C. Mann

Topics: Accessible Alarm Bathroom Been Cameras Clocks Computer Controlled Electric Embedded Home Lights Long Major Mundane Networks Now Objects Power Remotely Scales Similar Soon Systems Telephone Video Which Will

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I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'

~Douglas Coupland

Topics: Anymore Clocks Future Get Just Pepsi Point Right Say Think Three I Think

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In the industrial age and in analog clocks, a minute is some portion of an hour which is some portion of a day. You know, in the digital age, a minute is just a number. It's just 3:23. It's almost this absolute duration that doesn't have a connection to where the sun is or where our day is.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Absolute Age Almost Analog Clocks Connection Day Digital Digital Age Duration Hour Industrial Just Know Minute Number Our Portion Some Sun Where Which You

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At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

~E. E. Cummings

Topics: Children Clocks Fathers Indians Least Merely Pilgrim Punch Shoot Time Used

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