Quotes
Authors
Erik Naggum

"The Internet will not become a money machine until the banking industry figures out how to transfer money for free so you can charge USD 0.005 (half a cent) for some simple service like, say, reading a newspaper article you have searched for. With today's payment system, the cost of the transfer of the funds completely dwarf the cost of the service paid for. ... This situation, however, is what acutely prevents the Internet from taking off as a network for paid services."

-- Erik Naggum

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“If you don't give anything, don't expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.”

Source : Marva Collins (1990). “Marva Collins' Way”, Tarcher
“Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.”
“Sometimes I think I'm a nihilist because it doesn't matter, none of this matters. We're all following the will of some unknowable higher power, probably the stars manipulating our cellular magnets. We think we have all this agency, but do we? Do we really? Can you choose to be brave when you were born a coward? Can we be deprogrammed from the brainwashing that we grew up in? I think we can, but I think we need a lot of help.”
“One function of the imagination in autobiographical writing is to allow the writer to try out different versions of the self.”

Source : Marilyn R. Chandler, Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (1990). “Healing Art: Regeneration Through Autobiography”, Taylor & Francis
“In these gaudy times, we think we will shortly reach the point where everything is known, but the fact is we are ignoring the essential, which is love of all living things, of all beauty both visible and hidden.”
“Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don't see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game - he just works on his own game. And that's what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things.”
“Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.”
“The merits of deeper debt cancellation, when accompanied by conditions of accountability and transparency on the part of recipient countries, have been shown to generate much needed resources for health, education and poverty reduction for some of the world's poorest people.”

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