Evgeny Morozov Quotes

There are good reasons why we don't want everyone to learn nuclear physics, medicine or how financial markets work. Our entire modern project has been about delegating power over us to skilled people who want to do the work and be rewarded accordingly.

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• I am not honest.

  

  Larry David
  • Honest

• But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Now
  • Agreement
  • Australia

• Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Want
  • Control
  • Leadership

• And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Think
  • Heaven
  • Blessing

• Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Conversation
  • Group
  • Twitter

• The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Great
  • True
  • Small

• Action expresses priorities.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Action
  • Priorities

• I feel bad that I'm the one always blamed for the failure of the space business - even though there are problems with government policy toward the space business.

  

  Yi So-Yeon
  • Business
  • Bad
  • Space

• I like change, and I like being in the middle of change.

  

  Gary William Flake
  • Change
  • Like
  • Being

• It was surreal to play opposite Angela Lansbury and Elaine Stritch, Bernadette Peters and Catherine Zeta-Jones. There was so much to learn just from watching them, and it was an honor to share the stage with women who have accomplished what they have.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Women
  • Learn
  • Honor

• Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.

  

  Caecilius Statius
  • Everything
  • Servant
  • Delay

• Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.

  

  Nas
  • Music
  • Words
  • Couple

• The Confederations Cup is interesting. It served Spain very well to take part and then go on to win the 2010 World Cup. We knew the stadiums, the atmosphere, the conditions and also the difficulties of a tournament which simulated the World Cup format.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Win

• Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.

  

  Ralph Chaplin
  • Blood
  • Name
  • Differences

• Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

  

  Margot Fonteyn
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to seaIn a beautiful pea green boat,They took some honey, and plenty of money,Wrapped up in a five pound note.The Owl looked up to the stars above,And sang to a small guitar,'O lovely Pussy! O Pussy my love,What a beautiful Pussy you are,You are,You are!What a beautiful Pussy you are!'

  

  Edward Lear
  • Up
  • Money
  • Beautiful

• To deny political equality is to rob the ostracised of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work; of a voice among those who make and administer the law; a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • World
  • Work
  • Political

• In each of us there dwells a mystery, and that mystery is the human personality.

  

  Jacques Maritain
  • Personality

• United States: .... A nation given either to unjustified over-enthusiasms or infantile furies.

  

  John Ralston Saul

• When I was playing, I didn't realize how much of an impact I would make on people, Muslim or non-Muslim. We played a lot of games during Ramadan. On national TV, the announcers were commenting about Ramadan, and this raised the awareness to the general public and we made all the Muslims very, very proud.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • People
  • Proud
  • Realizing

• Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Great
  • Space
  • Purpose

• Somebody under 30, if the name Frank Zappa came up, they would just say, "Who?" To me that didn't sit well, because I felt my dad's accomplishments in music should be better known, not just in a popular way, but better understood.

  

  Dweezil Zappa
  • Up
  • Music
  • Dad

• There are good reasons why we don't want everyone to learn nuclear physics, medicine or how financial markets work. Our entire modern project has been about delegating power over us to skilled people who want to do the work and be rewarded accordingly.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • People
  • Reason
  • Modern