Douglas Rushkoff Quotes

The cloud is still really just a bunch of servers, owned by someone or something, whose decisions and competence must be trusted. This applies to everything from Google Docs to Gmail: Putting our data out there really means putting it 'out there.'

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• The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.

  

  Abu Abbas
  • Political
  • Purpose
  • Struggle

• I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Music
  • Why
  • Know

• I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.

  

  Ralph Stanley
  • Life
  • Done
  • Hope

• So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • You
  • Word
  • Crew

• When I was around 15, I did my first movie. I was at a kids' agency, and the third time I was invited to an audition, they offered me a little part in some kiddie thing, and I earned my first money. I was very proud that I could buy my first mountain bike with my own money.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Time
  • Money
  • Kids

• Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Beautiful
  • You
  • Confidence

• I have been blessed with friends who do things rather than buy things: friends who will change books at the library, take a bag of your old clothes to a thrift store, bring you cuttings and plant them in a window box, fill the bird feeder in your garden when you can't get out.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Friends
  • Change
  • Blessed

• Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Voice
  • Need
  • Solitude

• Dinosaurs are built just like birds - they can squat down, they can get up. Mammals, when we lay down, we throw our legs out to the sides - birds cannot do that. Dinosaurs could not do that either.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Up
  • Down
  • Sides

• My mother was a cleaning lady all her life.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Cleaning

• My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn't make any sense - why would I take on more of a financial burden when I couldn't even afford a dog?

  

  Edie Falco
  • Children
  • Why
  • Kids

• I think the universe just brings people around others they find to be interesting.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • People
  • Think
  • Interesting

• It's good just to laugh sometimes, and if it comes out of some truth, it's even stronger.

  

  Randee Heller
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Laugh

• I have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, but not sure they are doing what they want to do, which is normal.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Friends
  • College
  • Doing

• Yes, I think India's economy always has been a mixed economy, and by Western standards we are much more of a market economy than a public sector-driven economy.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • Think
  • Always
  • Economy

• Remember, your vote is not a wasted vote. Vote with your heart and think about the future generations the next time you vote.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Remember

• I didn't have a childhood.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Childhood

• No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Trying
  • Matter
  • Say

• My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.

  

  Mickey Gilley
  • Beach
  • Busy
  • Restaurants

• Moscow has changed. I was here in 1982, during the Brezhnev twilight, and things are better now. For instance, they've got litter. In 1982 there was nothing to litter with.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Twilight

• The best advice I ever got came from my mother, Estee Lauder: She believed that if you had something good to say, you should put it in writing. But if you had something bad to say, you should tell the person to his or her face.

  

  Leonard Lauder
  • Good
  • Writing
  • She

• When you're sick, you present your medicare card, not your credit card...

  

  Jack Layton
  • Present
  • Sick
  • Medicare card

• More is spent in a single month [in the U.S.] fighting the war on drugs than all monies ever expended domestically or internationally fighting slavery from its inception. Per month, we spend more on the drug war than we ever have trying to free slaves.

  

  Mira Sorvino
  • War
  • Single
  • Drugs

• The cloud is still really just a bunch of servers, owned by someone or something, whose decisions and competence must be trusted. This applies to everything from Google Docs to Gmail: Putting our data out there really means putting it 'out there.'

  

  Douglas Rushkoff