Linus Torvalds

I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn't do.

Finnish Businessman

Aml Ameen

It's a funny thing: my name in Arabic means hope, so I suppose I have to live by that principle. Hope is desire, feeling, and investing in a projection of something that doesn't yet exist. At its best, you witness its alchemy in your life, turning something that was once in the mind into reality. At its worst, it's delusion.

British Actor

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Actors are exposed in a way that nobody else can understand. They are subject to the likes and dislikes of people their entire life, no matter how successful they are. At the same time, in order to be liked, you have to not be yourself. So it's a very complicated human exercise - an alchemy that I have never understood.

Mexican Director

Alain Ducasse

It's striking and unique in London how you know to create this alchemy between the concept, the food, the music, the staff. From the beginning to the end, with all these different elements, it tells a full story that you know very well how to develop and cultivate.

French Chef

Jason Katims

There's something about the alchemy of the show - the actors, the writers, the directors, the editors - that makes 'Parenthood' unique. You get so deeply embedded with these characters because you go through life with them, and that's our priority.

American Writer

Mike Cernovich

Everything I do is alchemy. That's why I believe in magic. Not black magic, not the satanic magic that they practice in Hollywood and that the deep state practices and that the media practice. I believe in good magic, light magic, alchametic magic.

Kathryn Harrison

We know the seductive alchemy of art. To transform private anguish into a narrative of truth, if not beauty; to make sense where there was none; to bring order out of chaos - these are the promises art makes.

American Author

Robert Morgan

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.

American Poet

William Temple

I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose.

English

Sharon Salzberg

Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.

Originated in the Middle Ages; not commonly used in modern context except in historical references.

Historical Use

Often associated with magic, mysticism, and the search for secret knowledge.

Mystical Connotations

Trying to turn metals into gold is a metaphor for seeking valuable transformation or enlightenment.

Not Literal Gold

Refers to a creative or impressive transformation often seen as magical or incredible.

Creative Transformation

Used figuratively to describe a process that combines elements to create something special or valuable.

Figurative Expression

Can imply a transformative experience or the healing process of emotions and relationships.

Emotional Alchemy

 of what we like to refer to as architectural alchemy. This idea that you can actually create, if not gold, then at least added value by mixing traditional ingredients, like normal apartments and normal parking, and in this case actually offer people the chance that they don't have to choose between a life with a garden or a life in the city.

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 and the amount of change that occurs in that time is at the heart of every time-based art form, be it music, dance, or motion pictures. Manipulating the speed and amount of change between the frames is the secret alchemy that gives animation the ability to convey the illusion of life.

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 and why we should not do it, he somehow, through a mysterious alchemy that involves intellectual seduction manages to drag me into the idea, and I find myself in yet another part of the world that I didn't want to be in in the first place. - Alright, the first bad idea was

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 But even incorrect theories have their value. Discredited alchemy was the birthplace of modern chemistry, and medicine made great strides long before we understood the roles of bacteria and viruses. That said, better theories often lead to exciting new discoveries

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 of the midlife folks, just as they nurture their digital young geniuses as well? The most successful companies today and in the future will actually learn how to create a powerful alchemy of the two. Here's how the alchemy worked for me at

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 very own I experiment number three in in Greenland we're at the airport waiting for a plane or you tell us we're about to make no yeah we're gonna make snow yeah this is alchemy baby when it comes nicollet Brown who comes bring on the

Practical Alchemy in the...

 For peace has an alchemy, and this alchemy is about the intertwining, the alternation between the feminine and masculine perspectives. That's the real zipper. And we need to establish that existentially

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 it transforms that pain into beauty by a kind of alchemy it makes the bitter into the hauntingly bitter sweet even into joy and yet couldn't it be said that all great music is really soul music music

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 order to achieve peace for peace has an alchemy and this alchemy is about the intertwining the alternation between the feminine and masculine perspective that's the real zipper and we need to

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 new lifeforms that were computationally grown, additively manufactured and biologically augmented. I like to think of synthetic biology as liquid alchemy,