Quotation of the day for October 31, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for October 31, 2013 "Pushback is an expression of those who have access and use of communication technologies, but who decide to resist, drop off, manage or reduce their use of these technologies." - Ricardo Gomez, assistant professor in the University of Washington Information School, on people who step back from using communication technologies. [http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/10/21/pushback-resisting-the-life-of-constant-connectivity/] Submitted by: Terry Labach Oct. 22, 2013

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Quotation of the day for October 30, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for October 30, 2013 "When did it become inappropriate to inform people about legally protected rights related to technical issues? Is talking about legal rights the new porn? Apple doesn't scrub comments that try to help people by telling them to refer complaints to the feedback page - for in the Sharing Economy that is the Internet, that's free information donated to Apple. But when someone offers advice that tries to help people by telling them to exercise their rights, it gets purged?" - Lawrence Lessig, Internet activist, on Apple censoring discussion of WiFi problems on iPhone caused by Apple's iOS 7.0.3 upgrade. [http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/65338904338/wow-or-from-the-when-apple-became-the-borg-department] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Oct. 29, 2013

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Quotation of the day for October 29, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for October 29, 2013 Just a perfect day problems all left alone Weekenders on our own it's such fun Just a perfect day you made me forget myself I thought I was someone else someone good Oh, it's such a perfect day I'm glad I spent it with you Oh, such a perfect day You just keep me hanging on you just keep me hanging on - Lou Reed, musician and member of The Velvet Underground, from his song Perfect Day. Reed died October 27, 2013 at the age of 71. Submitted by: Terry Labach Oct. 28, 2013

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Quotation of the day for October 28, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for October 28, 2013 "People can misinterpret almost anything so that it coincides with views they already hold. They take from art what they already believe, and I wonder how many people have ever had their views about anything important changed by a work of art?" - Stanley Kubrick, filmmaker. Submitted by: Terry Labach Oct. 26, 2013

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Quotation of the day for October 27, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for October 27, 2013 "Science is telling us to have more fun together and do more stuff. This is great news, for we must obey science." - Danny Wallace, writer, on research by Robin Dunbar of Oxford University suggesting that men need to get together with friends twice a week. [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2469485/Mens-wellbeing-depends-meeting-friends.html] Submitted by: Terry Labach Oct. 23, 2013

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Quotation of the day for October 26, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for October 26, 2013 "Sonia rolled her eyes. She was a charmless girl, sneering and sarcastic. Gwen said they were all this way, American teenagers, because right from the start they'd been fed a diet of praise and false encouragement. And look what it produced--joylessness, confusion, discontent." - Lynn Freed, from her short story "The way things are going." Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Oct. 23, 2013

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Quotation of the day for October 23, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for October 23, 2013 "It sounds kind of like Big Brother, right?" - Rob Klug, traffic signal operations and engineering lead at Clark County, on how his department uses discoverable Bluetooth signals from passing cars to judge traffic volume. [http://www.columbian.com/news/2013/oct/21/bluetooth-traffic-flow-clark-county/] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Oct. 22, 2013

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Quotation of the day for October 22, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for October 22, 2013 "For me, the real question is not about Fredrickson or Losada or Seligman," Sokal says. "It's about the whole community. Why is it that no one before Nick-and I mean Nick was a first semester part-time Master's student, at, let's be honest, a fairly obscure university in London who has no particular training in mathematics-why is it that no one realized this stuff was bullshit? Where were all the supposed experts?" - Alan Sokol, who collaborated on a paper (Complex Dynamics of Wishful Thinking) with psychology student Nick Brown exposing the bad mathematics behind the positive psychology paper Positive Affect and the Complex Dynamics of Human Flourishing. Both papers were published in American Psychologist. [http://narrative.ly/pieces-of-mind/nick-brown-smelled-bull/] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Oct. 21, 2013

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Quotation of the day for October 21, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for October 21, 2013 "...get it cleared up and settled before everything collapses and it's all swallowed up by lawyers and taxes like everything else because that's what it's about, that's what my work is about, the collapse of everything, of meaning, of values, of art, disorder and dislocation wherever you look, entropy drowning everything in sight, entertainment and technology and every four year old with a computer, everybody his own artist where the whole thing came from, the binary system and the computer where technology came from in the first place, you see?" - William Gaddis, from his last novel, Agape Agape. Submitted by: Terry Labach Oct. 18, 2013

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Quotation of the day for October 20, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for October 20, 2013 "Darling, in the future you may not invite to a bed any young man about whom you do not know his father's profession, his eventual means, his status in this world. That is a one-way ticket to the mobile-home park." - Wilton Barnhardt, in his novel Lookaway, Lookaway. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Oct. 18, 2013

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Quotation of the day for October 19, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for October 19, 2013 "Boo me." - Jake Ireland, in his speech on his 2013 induction into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame. Ireland, a Canadian Football League official in 555 games, joked that it would make him feel more comfortable. Submitted by: Terry Labach Oct. 8, 2013

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Quotation of the day for October 18, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for October 18, 2013 Joey White, well he ain't got no choices Just like his daddy did, he joins the armed forces Gonna be a man, oh not a zero For Uncle Sam, well he'll be a hero He don't know that Uncle Sam is a cartoon and not a man Poor Joey White - Jake Smith, aka The White Buffalo, from his song Joey White. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Oct. 15, 2013

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Quotation of the day for October 17, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for October 17, 2013 I saw Jesus yesterday, He had heard all about my trouble. He said I'm sorry man, I never thought it'd go this way. I've given you no reason to believe, But you're still here on your knees. You make a fine living at the short end of the stick. - Ian Sherwood, from his song Short End Of The Stick. [http://iansherwood.com] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Oct. 11, 2013

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Quotation of the day for October 15, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for October 15, 2013 Phoney drawl, my phoney drawl Nothin' I do can shake this phoney drawl So I sing about guns n' horses Not my university courses Nothin' I do can shake this phoney drawl. - Geoff Berner, from his song Phoney Drawl. [http://geoffberner.com/] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Oct. 11, 2013

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Quotation of the day for October 14, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for October 14, 2013 "It has a whistling solo in it but it's an ironic whistling solo, okay? I have to explain this to the Americans, that it's an ironic whist--I don't know why you're laughing, love, it's your fault. The reason the Americans don't know what irony is is because of Alanis Morissette and no other reason, okay? So don't you be laughing at it, it's your blooming fault." - Billy Bragg, good-naturedly poking fun (and some collective Canadian guilt) at an audience member who laughed at his "ironic whistling solo" during his performance at the 2012 Mariposa Folk Festival. Submitted by: Terry Labach Oct. 8, 2013

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Quotation of the day for October 13, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for October 13, 2013 "New York has its share of tourists, too. I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?" - David Byrne, musician, from his essay on New York City, "Will Work for Inspiration". [http://creativetimereports.org/2013/10/07/david-byrne-will-work-for-inspiration/] Submitted by: Terry Labach Oct. 10, 2013

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Quotation of the day for October 12, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for October 12, 2013 "I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will." - Antonio Gramsci Submitted by: Reddy, Michael Sep. 26, 2013

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