"Before the Internet, coordinating more than 100,000 people, let alone paying them, was essentially impossible. But now with the Internet, I've just shown you a project where we've gotten 750 million people to help us digitize human knowledge."

-- Luis von Ahn

#Technology Quotes #People Quotes #Helping Quotes

“I do believe in love at first sight. I'm experiencing it everyday.”
“You ought to be thankful a hole heaping lot, for The places and people you're lucky you're not!”
“In Yugoslavia we were told we were not only naive idealists in wanting war criminals to be prosecuted but that we were actually standing in the way of a ceasefire which would save more lives. The idea was that, by giving amnesty to these ruthless warmongers, you would give them an incentive to stop killing. I found that incredibly naive, never mind cynical. Having been on the ground and having met with these ruthless killers, I knew the only thing they understood was the language of force.”
“The record business. Itâ€™s exactly what it is-Record-Busin ess. You have to take care of both, or they wonâ€™t take care of you.”
“The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.”
“Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of.”

Source : Rebecca Solnit (2013). “The Faraway Nearby”, p.65, Granta Books
“Novels arenâ€™t just happy escapes; they are slivers of peopleâ€™s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp. Reading the right one at the right time can make all the difference.”
“Each of us will one day be judged by our standard of life, not by our standard of living; by our measure of giving, not by our measure of wealth; by our simple goodness, not by our seeming greatness.”

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