Dave Winer Quotes
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We're all working together; that's the secret.
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I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.
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Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.
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I'll get in the face of anyone I think is wrong.
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I was probably 21 or 22 years old when I realized the prose that I live by, which is, 'You get what you give.' The more good deeds that you could do in your life, the more fulfilling and enriched your life is going to be. I truly believe that.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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Really, as long as I am working and have diversity, I am happy.
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We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.
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The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for.
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I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.
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There isn't a single American city, in my estimation, that has sufficient plans for a nuclear terrorist event.
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The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted.
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At night numbers must sleep; it is their duty, just as it is their duty to work in the daytime. Not sleeping at night is a criminal offense.
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There Poetry shall tune her sacred voice,And wake from ignorance the Western World.
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Y-y-you know what? Fine! Go ahead, join the Black Eyed Peas! I-I-I don't need you...I don't need anybody! runs away crying
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... if the majority of men cannot know what is good for them, each for himself, how can they know what is good for others by proxy? If they are to be controlled by specialists, how and by what standard can they choose the specialist?
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Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.
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'When you are dead your spirit will find my spirit,And then we shall die no more.'
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I get heartfelt thanks from all kinds of people. Today I heard from a waitress in Georgia who has lost her job and is trying to figure out how her local bank can change the terms on her credit card, and I heard from a physicist at a major research university who wants to explain a better theory of financial stress tests.
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We have drawn down to pre-surge levels.
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I have good voice inflection, that's why I'm good on radio. But on TV, I look too big because I move my hands around a lot.
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There is a lot of propaganda about opera singers not being able to act. That's not necessarily true and hasn't been true for a very long time. And certainly there were those instances when singers were told they need to fit into a certain size dress. Of course, women. Men? They just make the costume bigger.
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I want to be free to be any version of me I feel like being. I don't want to be McDonald's that serves the same food every time.
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Net neutrality is a concept that the tech industry rallies around, but it is hypocrisy.
