"Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about."

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Source : "Content, Dethroned". www.npr.org. October 10, 2006.

Cory Doctorow

#Kings Quotes #Conversation Quotes

“Man is never watchful enough against dangers that threaten him every hour. [Lat., Quid quisque vitet nunquam homini satis Cautum est in horas.]”
“True Americanism is practical idealism. Its aims, instead of being materialistic and mechanical, are idealistic to the point of being Utopian. In this way, the U.S. can provide and express ideals that strike a chord in humans everywhere - a declaration of independence on behalf of all the peoples of the world.”
“I was really good at being a bad guy.”
“The sight of the eye, the hearing of the ear, the touch of the hand may each and all be deceived, but the instructions of the spirit are in all things correct. The combined senses may misguide or fail, but he who happily secures the companionship of the Holy Spirit, walks in the ways of life and neither fears, becomes weary nor faints by the wayside.”
“One should not as a rule reveal one's secrets, since one does not know if and when one may need them again. The essential English leadership secret does not depend on particular intelligence. Rather, it depends on a remarkably stupid thick-headedness. The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous.”

Source : "Aus Churchills Lügenfabrik" ("Churchill's Lie Factory"), 12 January 1941; "Die Zeit ohne Beispiel" by Joseph Goebbels, Munich: Zentralverlag der NSDAP, (pp. 364-369), 1941.
“Possibly the tragedy of the bicycle is that it was invented too close in time to the car. In the historical scheme, pedal power hardly got under way before the combustion engine appeared and, not only took over the roads, but changed our view of machines. We've forgotten that pedal power is a potent form of energy.”
“We need only view a Dissection of that large Mass, the Brain, to have ground to bewail our Ignorance...We admire...the Fibres of every Muscle, and ought still more to admire their disposition in the Brain, where an infinite number of them contained in a very small Space, do each execute their particular Offices without confusion or disorder.”

Source : "Minds Behind the Brain. A History of the Pioneers and Their Discoveries". Book by S. Finger, 2000.
“Oh, that Einstein, always skipping lectures... I certainly never would have thought he could do it.”

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