"The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in 'Metcalfe's law'â€“which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participantsâ€“becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's."

Source : "Paul Krugman Responds To All The People Throwing Around His Old Internet Quote" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. December 30, 2013.

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“The second and third generation effect of immigration accounts for only a small portion of the height shortfall between Americans and northern Europeans. Besides the slowdown in American heights began in the 1950s, well before large-scale immigration into the country.”
“If one's sense of self is obtained through the eyes of another it is always subject to being lost.”

Source : Brenda Shoshanna (2004). “Zen and the Art of Falling in Love”, p.101, Simon and Schuster
“In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.”
“The heart never knows the colour of the skin”

Source : 1974 My Heart Soars.
“There is great freedom in simplicity of living.”
“Here’s my gut belief: Obama got a leg up by being admitted to both Occidental and Columbia as a foreign exchange student. He was raised as a young boy in Indonesia. But did his mother ever change him back to a U.S. citizen? When he returned to live with his grandparents in Hawaii or as he neared college-age preparing to apply to schools, did he ever change his citizenship back? I’m betting not.”

Source : "Obama’s College Classmate: 'The Obama Scandal Is at Columbia'" by Wayne Allyn Root, www.theblaze.com. August 6, 2012.
“Don't be afraid to go after what you want to do, and what you want to be. But don't be afraid to be willing to pay the price.”
“Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans!”

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