Jamais Cascio Quotes
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.
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I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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Be aware of who in your life is actually interested in hearing you discuss your writing, and who's just asking to be polite. Listening to writers talk about their work is often excruciatingly dull.
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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.
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There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people.
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I tried to play sports, which was a disaster and probably one of the reasons I ended up being an actress.
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I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.
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It's not about revenues: The fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other people.
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Idealist: a cynic in the making.
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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.
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'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
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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.
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Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.
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I am hell-bent for the South Pole - God willing and crevasses permitting.
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The fluctuations of certainty, the change Of degrees of perception in the scholar’s dark.
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You... you are as old as the Mamre oak, ancient interrogator of the moon, whose feigned groans cannot take us in. You write laws of iron.
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I was taught to be respectful and humble as a boy, and especially not arrogant.
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I need to be in touch with the people. You've got to look in their eyes, and you've got to feel what they feel. You've got to engage people. All that we do and believe in is engaging people to touch, to heal, to look at each other's eyes, to feel with each other, to cry with each other, to moan, to groan, to rejoice, to be happy.
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Its likely that a general pattern of behavior among threatened human societies is to become more blindered, rather than more focused on the crisis, as they fall.
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Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music.
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Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity.
