"Think about spam filters; if email didnt come from someone that someone you know knows, thats an important signal, and one we could embed in the environment; we just dont. I just want the world to be filtered through my social graph."

-- Clay Shirky

#Thinking Quotes #Important Quotes #Email Quotes

“My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43.”
“I imagined Kandinsky's mind, spread out all over the world, and then gathered together. Everyone having only a piece of the puzzle. Only in a show like this could you see the complete picture, stack the pieces up, hold them to the light, see how it all fit together. It made me hopeful, like someday my life would make sense too, if I could just hold all the pieces together at the same time.”
“I keep getting cast as this bad guy, and I don't know why.”

Source : "Hunter Parrish: Boy Wonder" by Julie Vadnal, www.elle.com. December 17, 2009.
“Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much the individual bits, but the successive patterns into which you arrange them, then break them up and rearrange them.”
“In general, an ideal partner is (a) open and nondefensive, (b) honest and nonduplicitous, (c) affectionate and easy-going, (d) mentally and physically healthy, (e) independent and successful in his or her chosen career or lifestyle, and (f) aware of a meaningful existence that includes humanitarian values.”
“All interesting heroes have an Achilles heel.”
“If you can help it, you aren’t destined to become a writer.”
“God is dead but my hair is perfect.”

Source : "Has le philosophe been undone?" by Jason Burke, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2006.

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