"If you are explaining, you're losing. It's a bumper sticker culture. People have to get it like that, and if they don't, if it takes three seconds to make them understand, you're off their radar screen. Three seconds to understand, or you lose. This is our problem."

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Source : Keynote address at the Open Source Convention, July 24, 2002.

Lawrence Lessig

#People Quotes #Three Quotes #Culture Quotes

“empathy, the least comfortable of human emotions.”
“England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.”
“People expect that they should be understood by you but seldom put in an effort to understand you.”
“For anyone going through a divorce or any other painful challenge, the first and most important recommendation I can make is to find some kind of spiritual and emotional support.”

Source : "How I Survived My Divorce From Rod Stewart" by Alana Stewart, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2012.
“Sometimes one of the justices, because they're, you know, they're brilliant lawyers themselves, can put the question in a particular way so that, even if you've prepared to talk about the topic, the question is put in such an excruciatingly difficult way that there's just no good way to handle it.”

Source : "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.
“He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.”
“Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.”
“You've got to stay strong to be strong in tough times.”

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