"I've spent my whole life worrying about the human-computer interface, so I don't want to suggest that what we have today is even close to acceptable."

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Nicholas Negroponte

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“Was love then like a bag of assorted sweets passed around from which one might choose more than once? Some might sting the tongue, some invoke night perfume. Some had centers as bitter as gall, some blended honey and poison, some were quickly swallowed. And among the common bull's-eyes and peppermints a few rare ones; one or two with deadly needles at the heart, another that brought clam and gentle pleasure. Were his fingers closing on that one?”
“Every public space is like a billboard, with messages from the collective subconscious of the nation. There one can read passivity, rage indifference, fear, double standards, subversion, bad economy, a twisted definition of 'public' itself, the whole Weltanschauung - an entire range of emotions and attitudes is exposed.”
“People who believe in ghosts think that dead people can walk through locked doors. Nonsense - they have to use a key like the rest of us.”
“The Bible says that lust in your heart is committing adultery. So you can't ***** without lust.”

Source : "'I was a teenage witch': Tea Party candidate". Interview with David Mark, www.abc.net.au. September 21, 2010.
“You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.”
“This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor anything about glory, honour, might, majesty, dominion, or power, except War. Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.”

Source : Preface (written 1918)
“I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an independent school, it was not part of the state educational system.”
“I was thinking that I might fly today. Just to disprove all the things you say... please be careful with me, I'm sensitive, and I'd like to stay that way.”

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