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Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity.

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• Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him.

  

  Larry Speakes
  • Learning
  • Yourself
  • Hunting

• I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch.

  

  Iain Glen
  • I Can
  • Director
  • Watch

• Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I don't take it very seriously. You shouldn't let your success get to your head or failure get to your heart. This is most commonly said. But people don't really practise it. I don't see myself as a celebrity; it has not sunk in. I just see myself as someone doing a nine-to-six job like a techie.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Heart
  • Job

• There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people.

  

  Viktor Yushchenko
  • People
  • Today
  • Conflict

• I tried to play sports, which was a disaster and probably one of the reasons I ended up being an actress.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Up
  • Play
  • Sports

• I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Mother
  • Respect
  • Yourself

• It's not about revenues: The fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Business
  • Economics
  • Digital

• The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Understand
  • First
  • Endeavor

• So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other people.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • People
  • Character
  • Moral

• Idealist: a cynic in the making.

  

  Irving Layton
  • Making
  • Idealist
  • Cynic

• As a leader, I believe it's important to have an open door with your staff. Those who want to learn and to grow in their careers will walk through that door and into your life. I encourage people to come and seek me out at 'Frontline' with good ideas, curiosity, and drive.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• 'If you go all the way back to the days just following creation, men lived nine hundred years or more.' - Answers to 200 of Life's most Probing Questions

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Life
  • Men

• Sampling out corruption is a very tough job, but I say so in all seriousness that we would be failing in our duty if we do not tackle this problem seriously and with determination.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Job
  • Determination

• Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

  

  Edmund Burke

• I am hell-bent for the South Pole - God willing and crevasses permitting.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • God

• The fluctuations of certainty, the change Of degrees of perception in the scholar’s dark.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Dark
  • Perception

• To-day, the road all runners come,Shoulder-high, we bring you home,And set you at your threshold down,Townsman of a stiller town.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Home
  • High
  • Road

• We only call at ducks when their rear ends are towards us. If I'm looking at you and you call my name, then I know where the sound came from. But if you had your back to me and I holler and you turn around, you would assume somebody hollered. You want your decoys to represent the sound that you're making.

  

  Jase Robertson

• Sometimes I'll fall off the wagon, but you learn that there's a time and a place. I'm young and I wanna have fun and go crazy, but then you go home and you're a mom and you have to give all that time to your family. It's just finding out when to do what and where.

  

  Uffie
  • Time
  • Family
  • Home

• I didn't quite understand the DVD thing and why my husband was mailing it back. I couldn't quite wrap my head around it. But now that I'm deeply in, as a watcher of content, what a brilliant business model. As a consumer, it's empowering to choose what I want to watch and when I want to watch it. I have three small children, so I need that flexibility, in order to really get into a show. And being on a Netflix show, it's perfect timing. I feel so grateful.

  

  Carrie-Anne Moss
  • Children
  • Perfect
  • Husband

• There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Death

• If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Quality

• Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity.

  

  Jamais Cascio