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Linda's Shad Quote List:
Society, Technology & Values
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- William C. Steere:
Some people believe that seeking diversity automatically
leads to excellence, but I think focusing on excellence
inevitably leads to diversity.
- Marcus Camby:
We don't all have to be best friends, but we've got to play like we are.
- Franklin P. Adams:
I find that a great deal of the information I have was acquired by
looking up something and finding something else on the way.
- Michael Jordan:
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.
- Prabhakar Ragde:
The web is like an anorexic porcupine.
There's not much content, but it's pointing everywhere.
- Sheila Copps (Heritage Minister):
When we talk about computer technology, it's always an investment.
When we talk about culture, it's always a subsidy.
- Unidentified speaker (World Economic Forum, 1996):
The future has arrived; it just isn't widely distributed yet.
- Unidentified speaker (World Economic Forum, 1996):
Efforts by legislatures to regulate content on the Internet constitute "law by the clueless
over places they have never been using tools they do not have."
- .sig of j-hill@coewl.cen.uiuo.edu:
Senator Exon: When the Communications Decency Act passed
at first I didn't give a rat's ass, but then someone explained the implications
of the new law, and I decided I should.
Enclosed, please find one rat's ass.
- Alfred Korzybski:
There are two ways to slide easily through life;
to believe everything or to doubt everything;
both ways save us from thinking.
- Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land:
"... You know how Fair Witnesses behave."
"Well ... no, I don't. I've never met one."
"So? Anne!"
Anne was on the springboard; she turned her head. Jubal called out,
"That house on the hilltop--can you see what color they've painted it?"
Anne looked, then answered, "It's white on this side."
- Ernest Hemingway:
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in shock-proof shit-detector.
- Martin Friedman:
Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.
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