Quotation of the day for September 29, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for September 29, 2013 "We need things consumed, burned up, worn out, replaced, and discarded at an ever increasing pace." - Victor Lebow, marketer, in 1955. Quoted by Clive Thompson in his article, "We Need a Fixer (Not Just a Maker) Movement". [http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/06/qq_thompson/] Submitted by: Terry Labach Sep. 24, 2013

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Quotation of the day for September 28, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for September 28, 2013 "Luckily, Channel 4 have also noticed how much sex there is everywhere and so, to counteract this "explosion of online pornography", they've commissioned a new show. That's got sex in it. How to boost your ratings while pretending to help society? Fight sex with sex! It's almost genius. "Anyway, in the show, called Sex Box, which sounds like an X-rated games console fronted by Tom Jones, three couples will have sex, in a box, in front of a studio audience, and then talk to Mariella Frostrup about it immediately afterwards. There won't be time for a cup of tea or a wash or to cry or lie about anything." - Bridget Christie, commenting on a proposed television program. [http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/24/normal-sex-box-channel-4] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Sep. 24, 2013

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Quotation of the day for September 27, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for September 27, 2013 "We have learned that in pursuit of its bureaucratic mission to obtain signals intelligence in a pervasively networked world, the NSA has mounted a systematic campaign against the foundations of American power: constitutional checks and balances, technological leadership, and market entrepreneurship. The NSA scandal is no longer about privacy, or a particular violation of constitutional or legislative obligations. The American body politic is suffering a severe case of auto-immune disease: our defense system is attacking other critical systems of our body." - Yochai Benkler, law professor and director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. [http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/13/nsa-behemoth-trampling-rights] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Sep. 24, 2013

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Quotation of the day for September 26, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for September 26, 2013 "America, thou hast it better Than our ancient hemisphere" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Sep. 24, 2013

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Quotation of the day for September 25, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for September 25, 2013 "Costco as much as anything else is why the land of the free and the home of the brave is also the trough of the tub o' lard, our exceptionalism measurable by not only our G.D.P. but also our B.M.I. That's body mass index, and our bodies are indeed massive. "I don't blame Costco per se. I blame what it represents: an American obsession with size, with quantity, that manifests itself as surely in supermarkets and restaurants as it does on our highways. We drive minivans and sport utility vehicles; we rip into veritable feed bags of potato chips and wedge our steroidal Thanksgiving turkeys into refrigerators more capacious than some European cars. This doesn't redound to our benefit." - Frank Bruni, in Hard Truths About Our Soft Bodies. [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/17/opinion/bruni-hard-truths-about-our-soft-bodies.html] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Sep. 19, 2013

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Quotation of the day for September 24, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for September 24, 2013 "Comments also may be the most obnoxious development of the Web, the wild back alleys where people sound their acid yawps." - Michael Erard, discussing reader comments on web sites. [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/22/magazine/no-comments.html?_r=0] Submitted by: Terry Labach Sep. 23, 2013

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Quotation of the day for September 23, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for September 23, 2013 "My enemy is not any individual human (though perhaps it is Simon Cowell) it is the grand collective tastelessness of talent show music, boardroom production, and big company blues. They take up too much bloody room, they are crowding my space, and it's time for a cull. If you feel the same, lets show them how many and reckless we are! By giving me your money." - Benjamin Darvill (aka Son of Dave), musician, makes a pitch for pre-orders of his forthcoming album 'Blues at the Grand'. [http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/sonofdave] Submitted by: Terry Labach Sep. 18, 2013

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Quotation of the day for September 22, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for September 22, 2013 "Like a coat of two colors, the Museum serves dual functions. On the one hand the Museum provides the academic community with a specialized repository of relics and artifacts from the Lower Jurassic, with an emphasis on those that demonstrate unusual or curious technological qualities. On the other hand the Museum serves the general public by providing the visitor a hands-on experience of "life in the Jurassic"...." - from the Introduction on the web site of The Museum of Jurassic Technology. [http://www.mjt.org/themainpage/main2.html] Submitted by: Terry Labach Sep. 18, 2013

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Quotation of the day for September 21, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for September 21, 2013 "Data collection and video surveillance will continue to grow as ubiquitous computing pervades almost all areas of our culture, either harnessed to our body or hovering over cities to monitor people from the sky. As technology moves to the nano scale, wearable devices will be both on us (e.g. smart glasses and other head-mounted displays, devices connected to the smartphone in the fitness and sports environment) and in us (e.g. a nanorobot navigating through the human circulatory system or shielding the human body against pathogens). "Therefore the question is: do we want to live in a surveillance society that might ensure justice for all, yet privacy for none? Are we ready to live in a "City of Control" or do we definitely cherish a "City of Trust"? Would we accept a panopticon -- a scenario in which the "few" see everything without ever being seen, while the "many" are totally seen but never see who is watching them -- or would we prefer an openspace/synopticon a scenario in which individuals are fully empowered to define borders of their own personal space?" - Gerald Santucci, head of the European Commission's Knowledge Sharing Unit, from the essay Privacy in the Digital Economy: Requiem or Renaissance? [http://www.privacysurgeon.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Privacy-in-the-Digital-Economy-final.pdf] Submitted by: Terry Labach Sep. 20, 2013

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Quotation of the day for September 20, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for September 20, 2013 "It was a close call for me between the University of Waterloo and Queen's. I was going to do physics and engineering at Waterloo, but then I visited the campus ... and, you may not want to print this," he says with a laugh, "but there didn't seem to be any girls there! So, I visited Queen's, and there were girls there. I didn't want to spend my undergraduate time with a bunch of dudes." - Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and co-founder of Paypal, quoted in the Queen's University Alumni magazine. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Sep. 19, 2013

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Quotation of the day for September 19, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for September 19, 2013 "And I get that Fox opposes a Syria peace plan because its modus operandi is to foment dissent in the form of a relentless and irrational contrarianism to Barack Obama and all things Democratic to advance its ultimate objective of creating a deliberately misinformed body politic whose fear, anger, mistrust and discontent is the manna upon which it sustains its parasitic succubus-like existence." - Jon Stewart, from The Daily Show, on the Fox News coverage of the Syrian conflict. [http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/jon-stewart-blasts-media-having-case-blue-bo, around 8 minutes into the clip.] Submitted by: Bob Bruhin Sep. 12, 2013

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Quotation of the day for September 18, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for September 18, 2013 He buys records for the virgin vinyl I scratch "I love you" in the grooves - Amanda Walther and Sheila Carabine, from their song Lennon and McCartney, recorded by their band Dala on the album Best Day. [http://www.strathan.com/artists/dala/8-artists/8-dala-about] Submitted by: Terry Labach Sep. 12, 2013

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Quotation of the day for September 17, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for September 17, 2013 "I am waiting for David to grow up the way I waited to get through school and grow up. Only it's my life that will pass! The three sentences I've served: my childhood, my marriage, my child's childhood." - Susan Sontag, from her journals. [http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/georgepacker/books/3.html] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Sep. 13, 2013

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Quotation of the day for September 16, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for September 16, 2013 "Imagine that after careful study a government official - say, the president or one of the party leaders in Congress - reaches a considered judgment that a particular course of action is best for the country. Suddenly, someone bursts into the room with new information: a group of white propertied men who have been dead for two centuries, knew nothing of our present situation, acted illegally under existing law and thought it was fine to own slaves might have disagreed with this course of action. Is it even remotely rational that the official should change his or her mind because of this divination?" - Louis Michael Seidman, in his essay Let's Give Up on the Constitution. [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/31/opinion/lets-give-up-on-the-constitution.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Sep. 13, 2013

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Quotation of the day for September 14, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for September 14, 2013 Sell, sell, sell, sell everything you stand for Tell, tell, tell, tell all the people that you care for Running here, running there Keep it moving, sonny, don't despair Because the next one will be, the next one will be, the next one will be, the best one of the year - Alan Price, from his song Sell Sell. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Sep. 11, 2013

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Quotation of the day for September 13, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for September 13, 2013 Q: Exactly. Why do you prefer typewriters to computers? A: Because I don't even know what a computer is. I've heard about them a lot, but I don't own one, and I don't want one to own me. Typewriters you can own. I think a computer owns you. - Manson Whitlock, typewriter repairman, in an interview with the Yale Daily News. Whitlock died in August 2013, at age 96, but had still been repairing typewriters shortly before his death. [http://yaledailynews.com/weekend/2010/09/03/backstage-the-oldest-typewriter-repairman-in-new-haven/] Submitted by: Terry Labach Sep. 12, 2013

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Quotation of the day for September 12, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for September 12, 2013 They could fingerprint my heart, I knew it from the start. Ain't no place for a face to hide from God and the FBI. - Janis Ian, from her song God and the FBI. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Sep. 10, 2013

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