"When something online is free, you're not the customer, you're the product."

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Source : Twitter post from Mar 21, 2012

Jonathan Zittrain

“If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals.”

Source : Robert S. McNamara (2004). “Official Teacher's Guide for The Fog of War: An Errol Morris Film”
“You create your own universe as you go along.”
“When people say "it's always the last place you look". Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you've found it?”
“Gratitude is the praise we offer God: for teachers kind, benefactors never to be forgotten, for all who have advantaged me, by writings, sermons, converse, prayers, examples, for all these and all others which I know, which I know not, open, hidden, remembered, and forgotten.”
“I love to cook a meal for the so-called holidays. You always need the turkey. I like making a good BBQ brisket as well.”

Source : "Meet The Rapper Everyone's Talking About". Interview with Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com.
“Whatever you habitually think yourself to be, that you are. You must form, now, a greater and better habit; you must form a conception of yourself as a being of limitless power, and habitually think that you are that being. It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.”
“In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society.”
“The school-boy doesnt force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning.”

Source : Hermann Ebbinghaus (1913). “Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology”

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