Jonathan Zittrain Quotes

Despite outsiders being invited to write software, the iPhone thus remains tightly tethered to its vendor - the way that the Kindle is controlled by Amazon.

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• The clash of civilizations or the clash between Islam and the West may be cliches. But there is an even bigger cliche around: that this clash actually goes on within Islam, between reformists and fanatics.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • May
  • Islam
  • West

• I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Writing
  • Expression
  • Audiences

• The government that came into power after the April 1994 elections was going to need a budget. It was drafted by our finance minister, Derek Keys, and he convinced them of the necessity to stay within the free-market principles that had been in force in South Africa for decades.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Power
  • Free
  • Government

• Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.

  

  Harold E. Hughes
  • Want
  • Die
  • Sun

• There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Up
  • Music
  • Done

• African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Women
  • Fear
  • Silence

• I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Time
  • Great
  • Country

• I don't really see myself as an actor.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Myself
  • See
  • Actor

• I could be winning the decathlon in high school, which I've won twice, yet, if my dad is in the audience, 'Oh look! It's Anthony Quinn.' And I'm like, 'Hello? Kid just got a gold medal. Hello? I'm over here.'

  

  Francesco Quinn
  • School
  • High
  • Dad

• There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the boughs of a tree, make a fire to roast it, and eat it in the open air, is the greatest of all luxuries. I would not stay a week pent up in cities if it were not for my passion for art.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Up
  • Art
  • Beautiful

• With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Live
  • Art
  • Sad

• Being known for musicals is a great thing.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Great
  • Being
  • Musicals

• A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Lie

• My 2005 calendar we actually did a shoot in Lake Las Vegas. Since I had requests do some swimwear and athletic shots we tried them and they came out good so we inserted them into the new calendar.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Good
  • Vegas
  • Lake

• Every gesture is a revolutionary act.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• Most of western culture is a distortion of reality. But reality should be distorted; that is, imaginatively amended. The Buddhist acquiescence to nature is neither accurate about nature nor just to human potential.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Nature
  • Reality
  • Culture

• No one can buy his share of 'clean air' in the market; one has to use communal mechanisms in order to deal with pollution.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Air

• To relax, I love sitting back and turning my brain off and watching TV.

  

  Aja Naomi King
  • Brain
  • Relax

• You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorising rather than being real.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Good
  • Real
  • Learn

• I marveled at how they were all closed up, asleep with their secrets unseen until you reached up and took the book down from the shelf.

  

  Deborah Lawrenson
  • Book
  • Asleep
  • Marveled

• I did candles because I wanted a candle to put in my home. I couldn't find one I liked.

  

  Matthew Williamson
  • Home

• Democracy has no place for the kind of justice implied in an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Democracy is a system for the resolution of conflict, not for vengeance. Simple black-white notions of right and wrong do not fit into democratic politics. Political controversies result from the fact that the issues are complex, and men may properly have differences of opinion about them. The most terrible of all over-simplifications is the notion that politics is a contest between good people and bad people. Democracy is based on a profound insight into human nature, the realization that all men are sinful, all are imperfect, all are prejudiced, and none knows the whole truth. That is why we need liberty and why we have an obligation to hear all men. Liberty gives us a chance to learn from other people, to become aware of our own limitations, and to correct our bias. Even when we disagree with other people we like to think that they speak from good motives, and while we realize that all men are limited, we do not let ourselves imagine that any man is bad. Democracy is a political system for people who are not sure that they are right.

  

  Elmer Eric Schattschneider
  • Justice
  • Democracy
  • Politics

• Despite outsiders being invited to write software, the iPhone thus remains tightly tethered to its vendor - the way that the Kindle is controlled by Amazon.

  

  Jonathan Zittrain