"Mobile communications and pervasive computing technologies, together with social contracts that were never possible before, are already beginning to change the way people meet, mate, work, war, buy, sell, govern and create."

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Source : "The mobile technofuture" by Neil McIntosh, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2002.

Howard Rheingold

#War Quotes #Communication Quotes #Technology Quotes

“Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.”
“I remember Stanley Benn remarking that one needed to be a certain age to engage with problems in political philosophy - I think he had in mind a certain breadth of understanding and experience - and so my political interests developed more slowly than the others.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.”
“I went through a period at boarding school when my coaches wanted me to switch to snowboarding because they thought I was no good at skiing. I was too skinny. I had terrible technique. They were saying I should be a snowboarder, and luckily, I resisted.”
“A woman's happiness is in throwing everything away to live for love.”
“Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.”
“PoincarÃ© was a vigorous opponent of the theory that all mathematics can be rewritten in terms of the most elementary notions of classical logic; something more than logic, he believed, makes mathematics what it is.”
“The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.”

Source : Ronald Blythe (1979). “The View in Winter: Reflections on Old Age”, p.13, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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