Matt Taibbi Quotes

Interest-rate swaps are a tool used by big cities, major corporations and sovereign governments to manage their debt, and the scale of their use is almost unimaginably massive. It's about a $379 trillion market, meaning that any manipulation would affect a pile of assets about 100 times the size of the United States federal budget.

Matt Taibbi

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• I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Different
  • Tired
  • Manipulation

• Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be, at least in small part, because of his book. The notion that ubiquitous surveillance and state manipulation of the media is evil is deeply engrained in us.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • May
  • Book
  • Society

• Con men look for human frailty to exploit. This is most often greed. Trump found a different vice: anger. The emotional are always the most susceptible to manipulation.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Men
  • Different
  • Emotional

• Every time one combines and records facts in accordance with established logical processes, the creative aspect of thinking is concerned only with the selection of the data and the process to be employed, and the manipulation thereafter is repetitive in nature and hence a fit matter to be relegated to the machines.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Nature

• How could you tell, when utter honesty and cynical manipulation would each account completely for the things she said and did?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • She
  • Honesty
  • Manipulation

• Imagination is the manipulation of images in one's head... the rational manipulation... as well as the literary and artistic manipulation.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Imagination
  • Manipulation

• And C was good at something I like to call manipulexity, that is the manipulation of complex things. While shell was good at something else which I call whipuptitude, the aptitude for whipping things up.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Up
  • Good
  • Manipulation

• I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • Manipulation

• Like most early enthusiasts, I always thought the way the Internet encouraged multitasking made users less vulnerable to manipulation, while simultaneously exploiting even more of our brain's capacity than before. Apparently not.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Brain
  • Manipulation

• However, don't let perfectionism become an excuse for never getting started.

  

  Marilu Henner

• Snowden was extremely good at digital self-defense. When he was employed by the C.I.A. and N.S.A., one of his jobs was to teach U.S. national security officials and C.I.A. employees how to protect their data in high-threat digital environments.

  

  Luke Harding
  • Good
  • High

• I learned a lot about 3D animation from and with my dear friend Michael Hemschoot of Workerstudio. Taught me that I want to play more with animation and image manipulation. Fun stuff!

  

  Angela Bettis
  • Fun
  • Friend
  • Manipulation

• Yes, we are looking into gene therapies for immune cells to target senescent cells.

  

  Liz Parrish

• If you look at Arijit Singh, Divya Kumar, and Benny Dayal, they aren't competing with each other. They have their individual standing and distinct space of work. I want to create that kind of niche for myself.

  

  Armaan Malik
  • Work
  • Space

• Social engineering is using manipulation, influence and deception to get a person, a trusted insider within an organization, to comply with a request, and the request is usually to release information or to perform some sort of action item that benefits that attacker.

  

  Kevin Mitnick
  • Action
  • Organization
  • Engineering

• I did pick Lyft, but Lyft didn't seem amazing.

  

  Dave McClure
  • Amazing

• I feel energized walking off stage.

  

  Marketa Irglova
  • Walking

• I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better.

  

  Lucy Walker
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own skulls, we can begin to contemplate an art which re-creates the goal of the sorcerer: changing the structure of reality by the manipulation of living symbols ... Art tells gorgeous lies that come true.

  

  Peter Lamborn Wilson
  • Art
  • Truth
  • True

• I don't want to be linked to anything negative. I don't want negative energy. I want everything positive around me.

  

  Kendra Wilkinson
  • Energy
  • Positive

• I'm gonna do between 75 and 100 dates. A lot of it will be in Laughlin, Nevada; I'll be there for two weeks. And I'll work some casinos here and there, and the fair dates.

  

  Mel Tillis
  • Work

• I just wanted to go to New York and be on Broadway, but then I was accepted by Juilliard, where they trained me in classical voice. It was great in the end, but at the time, I thought, 'What am I doing here? This is not my path.' But it was absolutely my path and where I was meant to be.

  

  Audra McDonald
  • Time
  • Great
  • Path

• Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Eyes
  • inspirational
  • Goals

• Interest-rate swaps are a tool used by big cities, major corporations and sovereign governments to manage their debt, and the scale of their use is almost unimaginably massive. It's about a $379 trillion market, meaning that any manipulation would affect a pile of assets about 100 times the size of the United States federal budget.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Manipulation