"The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves."

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Source : "Evolving Democracy for the 21st Century" by Beth Simone Noveck, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2011.

Beth Simone Noveck

#Distance Quotes #Technology Quotes #Creating Quotes

“Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas.”
“I realized that conservatism was the philosophy that best suited me, with its emphasis on individual liberty, personal responsibility, and merit.”
“The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.”
“In a hundred years, no one would know us, but this moment for us would last as long as we did.”
“Asking the proper questions is the central action of transformation. Questions are the key that causes the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.”
“You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.”

Source : Letter to Denis Diderot. "The Affairs of Women: A Modern Miscellany". Book by Colin Bingham, 1969.
“A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, Oh, I don't like it. One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.”
“America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.”

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