"Think of your existing power as the exponent in an equation that determines the value of information. The more power you have, the more additional power you derive from the new data."

-- Bruce Schneier

#Thinking Quotes #Data Quotes #Information Quotes

“News Corporation, today, reaches people at home and at work... when they're thinking... when they're laughing... and when they are making choices that have enormous impact. The unique potential.. and duty.. of a media company are to help its audiences connect to the issues that define our time.”
“In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don't talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer's block, all those things that we hear about writers.”
“I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways, this puts me in opposition to the people who go to the theater generally.”
“I'm no miracle man. I guarantee nothing but hard work.”
“For shoes I try to choose a bootie style and opt for a heel that looks good but allows me to get around.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“Hardcover and paperback forever. Someone carve that into a tree.”
“The artist has some internal experience that produces a poem, a painting, a piece of music. Spectators submit themselves to the work, which generates an inner experience for them. But historically it's a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator's experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist's. That idea comes from an over-industrialized society which has learned to distrust magic.”

Source : FaceBook post by Samuel R. Delany from Jan 16, 2017
“Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful. They tend to brighten all around them. They make others feel better about themselves. They tend to be more humble, more joyful, more likable.”

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