"In a world where discovery is more important than delivery, it's the people who find, remix and direct attention to old stuff that should be rewarded, not the people who deliver it or sit on it waiting for someone to show up."

-- Joichi Ito

#Discovery Quotes #People Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“Enlightenment is manâ€™s leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Such immaturity is self-caused if it is not caused by lack of intelligence, but by lack of determination and courage to use one's intelligence without being guided by another. Sapere Aude! Have the courage to use your own intelligence! is therefore the motto of the enlightenment...”
“I love you all too much, it's one of just of my problems.”
“I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.”
“The cavalry, in particular, were not friendly to the aeroplane, which it was believed, would frighten the horses.”

Source : Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Henry Albert Jones (1922). “The War in the Air: Being the Story of the Part Played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force ...”, The Clarendon Press
“We aim above the mark to hit the mark.”
“What I've learned about that word is context, where the world is coming from - in the era the film is set, it obviously is used derogatorily. In 'Selma,' it was the same sort of thing. Of course now, in music, it's used in many more ways, including ways that takes the sting out of it. It all depends on where and when it is used, and how you look at it. But again in 'Race,' it is intensely disrespectful.”
“The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.Â””
“According to the estimate of a prominent advertising firm, above 90 per cent, of the earning capacity of the prominent nostrums is represented by their advertising. And all this advertising is based on the well-proven theory of the public's pitiable ignorance and gullibility in the vitally important matter of health.”

Source : Samuel Hopkins Adams (1912). “The Great American fraud”

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