"People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium. [We] need to pay some more attention to that, because it's actually kind of fragile."

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Source : "The Internet could crash. We need a Plan B". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2013.

Danny Hillis

#Communication Quotes #People Quotes #Littles Quotes

“When you enlisted into the armed forces you swore to support and defend a Constitution that did not yet fully apply to you. You chose to endure the same sacrifices as your fellow comrades in arms to preserve the freedom of a land that was not yet fully yours. You accepted that you might have to pay the ultimate price on behalf of a nation to which you did not fully belong. Now, you will officially become citizens of the United States, a country to which each of you has already borne true faith and allegiance in your hearts and your deeds.”
“If you hunch your shoulders too long against a storm your shoulders will grow bowed.â€¦”
“The Science Coalition, which grew out of an initial concept at Harvard and at MIT, has now grown to an informal group of about 60 research universities.”

Source : "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.
“Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe of the dawn.”
“It was too important a matter, this talking to people, and listening to them, to do it lightly or often.”
“Someone said something really interesting the other day they said, "Even documentaries aren't what happened," you know there's a huge jump between life and then putting something in a two hour movie, even if it's a documentary.”
“It's hard to be in these relationships where they don't call you one night and you don't think about it and then the next day they are photographed with someone coming out of an event with another girl.”

Source : Source: www.seventeen.com
“Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.”

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