Quotation of the day for January 31, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for January 31, 2015 "You can say that will be more targeted but in terms of intrusion into personal privacy - collateral intrusion into privacy - we are likely to end up in an ethically worse position than we were before." - Sir David Omand, former head of British spy agency GCHQ, on not being able to read private communications due to encryption. [http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2015/01/23/encryption-will-lead-to-ethically-worse-behaviour-by-spies-says-former-gchq-chief/] Submitted by: Rob Wood Jan. 29, 2015

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Quotation of the day for January 30, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for January 30, 2015 "If you're looking for people to join your insanely dangerous and lucrative bombing spree, there are worse places to recruit than Liverpool." - Nick Summers, on thieves who blow up ATMs to gain access to the money inside. [http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-atm-bombers/] Submitted by: Rob Wood Jan. 29, 2015

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Quotation of the day for January 27, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for January 27, 2015 "The real problem is there are lots of cases of gummy proteins that you spend way too much time scraping off your test tubes, and you want some means of recovering that material." - Gregory Weiss, professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. His team has, in his words, "invented a way to unboil a hen egg." Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Jan. 26, 2015

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Quotation of the day for January 21, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for January 21, 2015 "If any of the great corporations of the country were to hire adventurers who make market of themselves in this way, to procure the passage of a general law with a view to the promotion of their private interests, the moral sense of every right-minded man would instinctively denounce the employer and employed as steeped in corruption and the employment as infamous." - The U.S. Supreme Court, in the 1874 case Trist v. Child. The court invalidated a contract, reasoning that lobbyists ("adventurers") were injurious to the public interest. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Jan. 19, 2015

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Quotation of the day for January 20, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for January 20, 2015 "It's been 50 years that we've cooperated with the IMF, the World Bank. And for 50 years we've had the same problem. There aren't roads. There aren't schools. There aren't universities." - Jean-Marie Kassamba, a Congolese bureaucrat, on why his country welcomes economic investment from China. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Jan. 19, 2015

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Quotation of the day for January 18, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for January 18, 2015 "It comes dangerously close to an expression of opinion." - The Duke of Wellington, disapproving of troops cheering their commander. [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-512555/The-peacock-professional-Nelson-Wellington-heroes-flaws.html] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Jan. 16, 2015

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Quotation of the day for January 17, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for January 17, 2015 "For he is the best orator who by speaking both teaches, and delights, and moves the minds of his hearers. To teach them is his duty, to delight them is creditable to him, to move them is indispensable." - Cicero Submitted by: Terry Labach Jan. 16, 2015

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Quotation of the day for January 16, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for January 16, 2015 "Dada wished to destroy the hoaxes of reason and to discover an unreasoned order." - Jean Arp, artist. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Jan. 12, 2015

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Quotation of the day for January 15, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for January 15, 2015 "I also have to say Colbert remains a Catholic role model for me - a deeply humane and kind man, a generous soul, someone so totally at peace with this modern cacophony, and yet also committed to a way of life that could not be more opposed to it. For so many who regard our faith as a cramped anachronism, he was a real beacon of what a modern Catholic can be: open, funny, decent, humble. He helped keep my faith alive in a dark decade. And made me laugh at the same time. Of whom else on television could I say such a thing?" - Andrew Sullivan, on Stephen Colbert. [http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/12/21/well-meet-again/] Submitted by: Ray Jones Dec. 22, 2014

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Quotation of the day for January 14, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for January 14, 2015 "No theoretical checks--no form of government can render us secure. To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. If there be sufficient virtue and intelligence in the community, it will be exercised in the selection of these men. So that we do not depend on their virtue, or put confidence in our rulers, but in the people who are to choose them." - James Madison, Virginia Ratifying Convention (20 June 1788). Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Jan. 12, 2015

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Quotation of the day for January 13, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for January 13, 2015 These then were some hazards of the course, Yet though we knew the course was hazards and nothing else It was still a shock when, almost a quarter of a century later, The clarity of the rules dawned on you for the first time. They were the players, and we who had struggled at the game Were merely spectators, though subject to its vicissitudes And moving with it out of the tearful stadium, borne on shoulders, at last. - John Ashbery, from his poem Soonest Mended. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Jan. 12, 2015

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Quotation of the day for January 10, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for January 10, 2015 "Engravings or lithographs act immediately upon the imagination of the people, like a book which is read with the speed of light; if it wounds modesty or public decency, the damage is rapid and irremediable." - Francois-Regis de la Bourdonnaye, Comte de la Breteche, French interior minister (1829). Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Jan. 10, 2015

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Quotation of the day for January 7, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for January 7, 2015 "We are the legal owner of the drugs - we are responsible for everything the bot does, as we executed the code. But our lawyer and the Swiss constitution says art in the public interest is allowed to be free." - Domagoj Smoljo, artist, on an automated shopping bot called the Random Darknet Shopper. The bot was programmed to make random on-line purchases, which resulted in it purchasing some illegal goods. [http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/05/software-bot-darknet-shopping-spree-random-shopper] Submitted by: Rob Wood Jan. 1, 2015

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Quotation of the day for January 6, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for January 6, 2015 "Writers are the ones who experience encroachments on freedom of expression most acutely, or first. The idea that we are seeing some similar patterns in free countries to those we've traditionally associated with unfree countries is pretty distressing." - Suzanne Nossel, executive director of the PEN American Center, on a survey of writers that found that a significant majority were deeply concerned with government surveillance. [http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/05/arts/writers-say-they-feel-censored-by-surveillance.html] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Jan. 6, 2015

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Quotation of the day for January 5, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for January 5, 2015 "I used to support this idea that you 'write what you know.' You hear that advice given to young writers all the time and even to kids in school. It's one of the greatest disservices - even in elementary school, teachers ask students just back from holidays to write about what you did, what happened to you, what you know. What about what you imagine? The imagination is the richest tool you will ever have as a novelist and, really, as a person. Anybody can do research. To use your imagination is to use a gift of the gods. The imagination is really disrespected when you're telling people over and over to write what you know. This idea that what you experienced in your backyard when you were 15 is more significant or more real is just not true." - Lawrence Hill, author of The Book of Negroes. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Jan. 5, 2015

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