John Zimmer Quotes
The solution to transportation inefficiencies lies at the intersection of collaborative consumption and the social graph: Shifting transportation from ownership to access.
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I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.
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I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.
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What we have tried to instill across the league through ownership and management is that we stand for inclusiveness and to judge somebody on the merits.
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Synergies are not only about cost reduction. Synergies can be access to markets, exchange of products, avoiding overlaps, exchange of best practices.
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You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation.
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I've just taught thousands of people over the radio in the USA how to mend broken watches and broken house appliances. I am a catalyst or trigger to access these powers.
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My worst ever car was a green Datsun B210, back when they called it 'Datsun' - now it's 'Nissan.' Very unsexy, unattractive. Girls hated the car. I was embarrassed to even be in it... but it was my transportation.
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My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities in orbit. And this led to various sorts of work in space development.
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There are many people talking about access to space and, 'How can we make that cheaper? How can we turn that into a Southwest Airlines versus the big airlines?'
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The PCAOB and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act raise unconstitutional barriers to needed liquidity, discourage entrepreneurship and innovation, and hinder U.S. competitiveness by denying access to needed capital. The high cost of compliance that disproportionately affects smaller public companies is having long-term exponential negative implications for our economy.
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The resilience of the economy ... is helping it to absorb the shocks to energy and transportation from the hurricanes.
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If you own just one Bible, you are abundantly blessed. 1/3rd of the world does not have access to even one.
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At this point, everything is on the table, ... All possible offset options remain open, including reconsidering highway projects sought by members in the transportation bill.
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It is a great pleasure to live with positive hope that the most deprived will gain access into the Kingdom of God.
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Our customers consist of some of the largest financial services firms in the world. These organizations must be able to implement strict access controls to the massive amounts of sensitive data and information they store. Oracle Database Vault provides a strong foundation to build these controls without significantly impacting the performance of the application or database.
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We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.
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The Internet lives where anyone can access it.
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No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.
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Pilots have their names painted just beneath the canopy of their aircraft. This gives the pilot a sense of ownership for his or her jet. What's more, like cars, each aircraft has its own personality, so it's important for a pilot to get to know and love his aircraft.
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The biggest surprise was a picture my mom sent me, just about the time that we were about to wrap up the book, of me as a 5-year-old dressed in my first Halloween costume that she made for me. I said, "What's this? I never saw this photo." And she said, "We made you this black-and-orange Halloween costume out of crepe paper" - we were too poor to have fabric back then - "and you wanted to go as the Queen Of Halloween." And I was like, "What?" And she said, "Yeah, the Princess Of Halloween, the Queen Of Halloween, something like that.
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I was born and raised in Zambia in 1969. At the time of my birth, blacks were not issued birth certificates, and that law only changed in 1973.
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Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world.
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Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake.... During a recent landfill dig in Phoenix, I found newspapers dating from 1952 that looked so fresh you might read one over breakfast.
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The solution to transportation inefficiencies lies at the intersection of collaborative consumption and the social graph: Shifting transportation from ownership to access.
