"I think the increased ubiquity of the internet and networked computing in general allowed me to have some tether no matter where I was geographically. I could log in to a computer from anywhere in the world and access the same information and the same people. It allowed me to transcend the physical differences."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Chelsea Manning

#Thinking Quotes #Differences Quotes #Ubiquity Quotes

“There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)”
“I'm sitting at the dinner table, wearing my future mother-in-law's underwear. It's like some twisted dream that you wake up and thinkL Crikey Moses! Thank God that didn't really happen!”
“The situation in Greece just goes from bad to worse. Weâ€™ve now got a situation where there was the big suicide a few weeks ago, where a 77-year-old man shot himself in the head outside the Greek Parliament. That was the public face of whatâ€™s gone wrong.”
“Conclusions are based in time. We live in time. So any definition of success is bound up with time. With other things you can say, "Can I yo-yo? Can I juggle?" Usually you have a pretty small window in which to get your answer. Stand-up is different. You can't do stand-up for one night and say, "Am I a funny stand-up comedian?" In two months or two years you'll start to realize it.”
“I have made "start, grow and stay" a big part of my administration.”

Source : "Mayor Ed Lee shares his vision for tech in SF". Interview with James Temple, www.sfgate.com. September 6, 2011.
“The most DIFFICULT thing for individuals to do when they become part of a team is to sacrifice, it is much EASIER to be selfish.”
“Take the road where the eagle flies, man follows where his fortune lies.”

Source : Song: I Need You, Album: Don't Say No
“It is not true that love makes all things easy; it makes us choose what is difficult.”

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