"With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves â€” the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public â€” has stopped being a problem."

-- Clay Shirky

#Data Quotes #Digital Quotes #Problem Quotes

“The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.”

Source : "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Buchner, Act II, 1835.
“There's something very addictive about people pleasing. It's a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate.”
“Leif's frown eased and he slid his finger under my chin and gently caressed my jaw line with the pad of his thumb. "Pagan,will you do me the honor of being my date for Homecoming Dance?The prospect of not being able to hold you in my arms all night is heartbreaking." Mirand sighed from across the table. "Okay,that was beautiful.Why didn't you ask me like that?"she asked Wyatt. Wyatt shot Leif an annoyed frown. "Thanks,buddy.Next time you decide to break out your romantic side,could you do it alone?”
“So I do, of course, reject much that is central not only to the psychology of Descartes and Kant, but to their epistemology as well. No doubt, the best available theories of today will look primitive in comparison with what we are in a position to understand hundreds of years from now.”
“It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.”

Source : Kirby Larson (2007). “Hattie Big Sky”, p.159, Yearling
“I am extremely active and conscious of not eating any processed foods.”
“You must plan to be spontaneous.”
“The smallness of our desires may contribute reasonably to our wealth.”

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