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Quotation of the Day for July 31, 2010"A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books." - Walt Whitman Submitted by: Reddy, Michael Jul. 23, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for July 30, 2010"But the hope that we could carefully control how others view us in different contexts has proved to be another myth. As social-networking sites expanded, it was no longer quite so easy to have segmented identities: now that so many people use a single platform to post constant status updates and photos about their private and public activities, the idea of a home self, a work self, a family self and a high-school-friends self has become increasingly untenable. In fact, the attempt to maintain different selves often arouses suspicion. Moreover, far from giving us a new sense of control over the face we present to the world, the Internet is shackling us to everything that we have ever said, or that anyone has said about us, making the possibility of digital self-reinvention seem like an ideal from a distant era." - Jeffrey Rosen, law professor at George Washington University, in the article "The Web Means the End of Forgetting". [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/magazine/25privacy-t2.html] Submitted by: Terry Labach Jul. 26, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for July 29, 2010"Ma fille pourrait attendre patiemment ma mort au lieu de tout faire pour la précipiter." ["My daughter could have waited patiently for my death instead of doing all she can to precipitate it."] - Liliane Bettencourt, 87, billionaire and heiress of the L'Oréal cosmetics fortune in Europe, speaking to France 3 television after her only child, Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers, 57, attempted to declare her mentally incompetent. This ostensibly private matter has erupted into a public scandal, reaching into the Élysée Palace and the government of French Prime Minister Nicolas Sarkozy. [http://info.france2.fr/france/liliane-bettencourt-contre-attaque-64098111.html] Submitted by: Manavendra Thakur Jul. 19, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for July 28, 2010"There is a certain kind of carefree that returns to you in old age, different from the carefree of youth when you didn't know any better. It's more like being free of caring. It isn't joyous at all, as it was in youth, but it is a kind of freedom, and all kinds of freedom are precious in some way." - Federico Fellini Submitted by: Reddy, Michael Jul. 23, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for July 27, 2010"I am a lie who always speaks the truth." - Jean Cocteau Submitted by: Terry Labach Jul. 26, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for July 26, 2010"They get angry when they read about how filthy they are, but instead of shoplifting some deodorant, they strive to become even filthier." - Hunter S. Thompson, on the members of the Hell's Angels motorcycle gang, from his book Hell's Angels: a strange and terrible saga. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Jul. 26, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for July 25, 2010"There is nothing more difficult and dangerous, or more doubtful of success, than an attempt to introduce a new order of things in any state. For the innovator has for enemies all those who derived advantages from the old order of things, while those who expect to be benefited by the new institutions will be but lukewarm defenders." - Niccolo Machiavelli, "The Prince", Chapter VI. Submitted by: Reddy, Michael Sep. 17, 2009 |
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Quotation of the Day for July 24, 2010"Inner harmony is attained only when, by some means, terms are made with the environment." - John Dewey Submitted by: Reddy, Michael Sep. 15, 2009 |
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Quotation of the Day for July 23, 2010"It doesn't matter how good or bad the product is; the fact is that people don't read anymore. Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year." - Steve Jobs, Apple CEO, casting scorn on the Kindle e-reader in The New York Times in 2008. [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/business/27digi.html] Submitted by: Terry Labach Jul. 19, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for July 22, 2010"Perhaps if one really knew when one was happy one would know the things that are necessary for one's life." - Joanna Field Submitted by: Reddy, Michael Jul. 16, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for July 21, 2010"I basically like "comments," though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots." - Gene Weingarten, columnist for the Washington Post, on how the Internet is changing print journalism. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/09/AR2010070904048.htm] Submitted by: Phil Wolff Jul. 17, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for July 20, 2010"The Internet-versus-books debate is conducted on the supposition that the medium is the message. But sometimes the medium is just the medium." - David Brooks, in his July 8, 2010 New York Times Op-Ed "The Medium Is the Medium." [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/09/opinion/09brooks.html?_r=2&src=me&ref=homepage] Submitted by: Kelly Groves Jul. 15, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for July 19, 2010"And Constance herself is the kind of young woman a state entirely mired in bigotry can't produce. Though she doesn't belong to a church, McMillen describes herself as an "open-minded Christian" and a strong believer in monogamy, which she expresses in a distinctly evangelical way. "Actually, I have a promise ring from my girlfriend, and I'm pretty sure that within the next year she's going to propose. Of course, we wouldn't get married until she's 18." One male student once asked McMillen's girlfriend, "How can you be redneck and gay at the same time?" which seems tantamount to proof that the woman in front of him had that figured out. McMillen would like to live in Los Angeles when she gets older, but that is due in part to many, many hours spent watching the L Word. Her girlfriend says she doesn't want to come because she can't hunt there." - Margaret Wheeler Johnson, in "Southern Belle: Constance McMillen's suit over the prom is winning over the South." [http://www.slate.com/id/2259423/] Submitted by: Chris Doherty Jul. 13, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for July 18, 2010Not long ago I was offered work as a quality-control expert with an American company in China I'd never heard of. No experience necessary--which was good, because I had none. I'd be paid $1,000 for a week, put up in a fancy hotel, and wined and dined in Dongying, an industrial city in Shandong province I'd also never heard of. The only requirements were a fair complexion and a suit. "I call these things `White Guy in a Tie' events," a Canadian friend of a friend named Jake told me during the recruitment pitch he gave me in Beijing, where I live. "Basically, you put on a suit, shake some hands, and make some money. We'll be in `quality control,' but nobody's gonna be doing any quality control. You in?" - Mitch Moxley, Rent a White Guy: Confessions of a fake businessman from Beijing. [http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/rent-a-white-guy/8119/] Submitted by: Lynn Kisilenko Jul. 7, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for July 17, 2010"...it is impossible for us, with our limited means, to attempt to educate the body of the people. We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect." - Thomas Babington Macaulay, member of the Governor General`s Council, in Calcutta, in 1834. Quoted in The New Yorker, May 31, 2010. [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1833macaulay-india.html] [The submitter notes: in 1857, English speaking universities were opened in Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta.] Submitted by: Z.D. Hora Jul. 13, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for July 16, 2010"A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it." - Lewis H. Lapham Submitted by: Reddy, Michael Jun. 29, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for July 15, 2010"The internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. "They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you." - Prince, musician, in an interview in The Daily Mirror. [http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2010/07/05/prince-world-exclusive-interview-peter-willis-goes-inside-the-star-s-secret-world-115875-22382552/] Submitted by: Terry Labach Jul. 6, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for July 14, 2010"The picture we've gotten of how and what people buy has been exaggerated," he said, leaning across the table. "Take the kids in this office, some of whom have six-figure incomes. They can't afford to live in this city. Compare that to my father's time. When my father bought his house in nineteen sixty-five, it cost roughly what his annual salary was then. Today, it's different. Take monthly expenses. We now have a mobile phone bill, an Internet bill, a cable television bill, an inkjet printer that eats cartridges, none of which drew down our disposable income a few years ago. The average American household spends more a year on technology-related products and services than it does on clothes, health insurance, prescription drugs, or entertainment." Paco paused. "The poignancy of our era, Lee, is that a significant part of the population worries about downward mobility, which is why the Dollar Stores of the world are winning." - Paco Underhill, "retail anthropologist", quoted in Lee Eisenberg's 2009 book Shoptimism: Why the American Consumer Will Keep on Buying No Matter What. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Jun. 25, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for July 13, 2010"In the autumn, we attended football games at nearby high schools. We followed tiny Olathe High through a state-championship season, and we went to the victory parade that was held on Olathe's main street. The players rode atop fire trucks to the end of the road, where they did a U-turn and came back, so everybody in town had a chance to cheer twice." - Peter Hessler, from Go West: Scenes from an American Homecoming, The New Yorker, April 19, 2010. Submitted by: Lynn Kisilenko Jul. 8, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for July 12, 2010"Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear." - Bertrand Russell Submitted by: Reddy, Michael Jul. 1, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for July 11, 2010"If I'm going to die, I'm ready. But I'm going out playing `Sophisticated Lady.' " - Charles Mingus, musician, on refusing to leave a concert venue in 1972 that had received a bomb threat. Mingus told police "Racism planted that bomb, but racism ain't strong enough to kill this music." [http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2010/05/17/100517crat_atlarge_pierpont?currentPage=6#ixzz0oBWZi] Submitted by: Trevor Goodyear Jul. 7, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for July 10, 2010"The machine must move forward for good or evil - for it cannot be stopped; like the fire it may purify, if properly kindled by a skilful hand, but if it should be impetuously and recklessly accelerated, destruction and overwhelming wreck must be the inevitable consequences." - Edward Stanley, 14th earl of Derby (1799-1869), British prime minister, from his 1834 "Knowsley Creed", on progress Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Jul. 8, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for July 9, 2010"If you're a computer geek you find your community in compatriots who are fluent in Linux code. Complete strangers, walking the same breed of dog, cross busy streets to exchange intimacies about Fido and Spot's respective toilet habits. If you're a college, a church, a museum, a charity, or a monkfish, to be unbranded or misbranded is to be nowhere and no one." - Lee Eisenberg, in Shoptimism: Why the American Consumer Will Keep on Buying No Matter What. [http://www.leeeisenberg.com/] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Jun. 25, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for July 8, 2010"A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity not only turns into quality at some extreme of scale, but also does so according to principles we already understand. Some of my colleagues think a million, or perhaps a billion, fragmentary insults will eventually yield wisdom that surpasses that of any well-thought-out essay, so long as sophisticated secret statistical algorithms recombine the fragments. I disagree." - Jaron Lanier, virtual reality pioneer, discussing the Internet, from his 2010 book You Are Not a Gadget. Submitted by: Terry Labach Jul. 5, 2010 |
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Quotation of the Day for July 7, 2010"About 70 percent of the Kyrgyz economy rests on reselling goods from China to Kazakhstan, taking advantage of Kyrgyzstan's status with the World Trade Organization, to which Kazakhstan doesn't belong. This allows the Kyrgyz to import at lower tariffs than what they charge on export. This, to say the least, is not a sustainable economy." - Borut Grgic, the founder and director of the Institute for Strategic Studies in Ljubljana, Slovenia. [The submitter notes: And you thought the US economy was in trouble!] [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/01/opinion/01iht-edgrgic.html] Submitted by: Manavendra Thakur May 31, 2010 |
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