"I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change."

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Source : Interview, edition.cnn.com. March 11, 2008.

Alex Steffen

#Technology Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“I needed to see, needed to know, needed a whole lot more.”
“To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded.”
“For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greatest distress to mankind - to even the wisest and cleverest of us - is the plague of poverty.”

Source : "The Japanese Family Storehouse" by Ihara Saikaku, (Book III, ch. 1), 1688.
“This is my fault. Mine. Making her think I'd be here for her.”
“We might say that the dream tranforms the dreamer; that it possesses the ability to 'initiate', to bestow new meaning, to motivate new beginnings (Latin: initium - beginning), to permit our entrance (literally 'en-trance'; Latin: inire init - to go in) to new orders of relation between ourselves and the 'other'.”
“What we think and what we eat, combined together, make what we are, physically and mentally.”
“Of course we believe these things. We believe in social security. We believe in work for the unemployed. We believe in saving homes. Cross our hearts and hope to die! We believe in all these things. But we do not like the way that the present administration is doing them. Just turn them over to us. We will do all of them, we will do more of them, we will do them better and, most important of all, the doing of them will not cost anybody anything!”
“I think the nation as a whole has a role in making sure that each individual, each citizen maximizes one's potential.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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