Paul Gillmor Quotes

We are putting more and more power into a system which is less and less able to carry it reliably.

Paul Gillmor

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• In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Time
  • Enemy
  • River

• When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Politics
  • First
  • Selling

• I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Thinking
  • Question
  • Best

• I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Time
  • Love
  • She

• I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Friends
  • American
  • Government

• Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.

  

  Ed Markey
  • America
  • Technology
  • Safety

• I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • World
  • Leader

• I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Wanted
  • Accident
  • Blueprint

• A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Asking
  • Species
  • Definition

• It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Children
  • Living
  • Adapt

• If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Truth
  • Together
  • You

• I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Education
  • College
  • Wrestling

• Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Good
  • Stop
  • Rest

• Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show.

  

  Major Taylor
  • World
  • Living
  • Greatest

• I'm not quite sure how I would do babysitting.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Would
  • Sure
  • Babysitting

• I feel so fortunate and lucky I don't have to be a waitress or a bartender or a personal trainer.

  

  Abbie Cobb
  • Lucky
  • Personal
  • Bartender

• Fifty years from now, if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books, we shall not exist.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • School
  • History
  • Understanding

• The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are full of doubts.

  

  James P. Hogan
  • People
  • World

• Cowgirl is a spirit, a special brand of courage. The cowgirl faces life head on, lives by her own lights, and makes no excuses. Cowgirls take stands. They speak up. They defend the things they hold dear. A cowgirl might be a rancher, or a barrel racer, or a bull rider, or an actress. But she's just as likely to be a checker at the local Winn Dixie, a full-time mother, a banker, an attorney, or an astronaut.

  

  Dale Evans
  • Courage
  • Spirit
  • Brand

• Everyone around me is so strict about keeping me grounded.

  

  Chloe Grace Moretz

• We cannot and will not ban the creation of violent video games. But, we can prevent the distribution of these disturbing games to children, where their effects can be negative

  

  Herb Kohl
  • Children
  • Games
  • Creation

• A lot of the questions raised about television's power and influence on events have applied throughout history to every mass-communications medium - most particularly print, because that's the medium we've had the longest.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Power
  • History
  • Influence

• We are putting more and more power into a system which is less and less able to carry it reliably.

  

  Paul Gillmor
  • Power
  • System
  • Carry