"The market won't let us treat all data equally because there's a potential to make huge gobs of money not doing that. In the United States of America, people will pay to be first unless we do something to stop them. We don't have defenses built in because we haven't been investing in criticism that would help us mount a defense. I"

-- Astra Taylor

#Data Quotes #America Quotes #People Quotes

“The purest water is formed by flowing through the muddiest mountains”

Source : "Dark Rooms: A Saga". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2002.
“It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot line on.”

Source : Carol Anshaw, Merrill Maguire Skaggs (2012). “Aquamarine”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Our male-dominated culture tends to define success in terms of wealth, fame, power, the reaction of others. Women are fed a version that includes personal fulfilment through marriage and motherhood in addition to professional acclaim and of course we must look sexy but not too sexy and then graciously disappear when we hit middle age.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
“People frequently bore me, sometimes amuse me, most often irritate me, but rarely intrigue me.”
“We sleep, allowing gravity to hold us, allowing Earth - our larger body - to recalibrate our neurons, composting the keen encounters of our waking hours , stirring them back, as dreams, into the sleeping substance of our muscles.”
“When I was a child, I was referred to as the Danny Kaye of the family, because I was always impersonating and mimicking people. I was a song and dance man.”
“Take a favorite trick of yours and write a 'gestures script' how could you improve clarity [using gestures].”
“Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.”

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