Evgeny Morozov Quotes
While free software was meant to force developers to lose sleep over ethical dilemmas, open source software was meant to end their insomnia.
Quotes to Explore
-
If you are unhealthy, start by making small changes to become healthier. You are unique, beautiful, and worthy.
-
The very qualities that make it harder for women to get elected - not being part of the old boy's network - gives them the advantage of having fresh, and yes, clean faces.
-
Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
-
I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
-
My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.
-
Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
-
When it comes to landing a good job, many people focus on the role. Although finding the right title, position, and salary is important, there's another consideration that matters just as much: culture.
-
As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some of our memory to them. We would ask questions, and our machines would give oracular - or supremely practical - replies.
-
Every kid, every minority kid can be so successful if they focus on their education.
-
When I see other people out there, involved, and really giving their time and effort for the kids, then I don't mind giving my time and effort for the kids as well.
-
When I have an idea, I'm like a pregnant woman. I just have to deliver.
-
I think it's safe to say that 'manliness' was a common theme in my upbringing. It was an assumed status, but - and here's the important bit - it was the Rudyard Kipling kind. The emphasis was on gentlemanly conduct, sportsmanship, fairness and stoicism.
-
You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us.
-
Cultural evolution is Lamarckian and very fast, whereas biological evolution is Darwinian and usually very slow.
-
One of the clearest indications of the impending loss of intimacy with one's soul is the failure to recognize the existence of a soul in those over whom power is exercised, especially if the helpless come to be treated as animals, and degraded.
-
I pushed against doing a podcast for so long. I'm a very late comer to the podcast game. But you're responsibility as a comedian is to get your viewpoints out into the world, and we have a lot more avenues to do that. So it's a lot more opportunity, but really have to work all the time.
-
I don't think it's any secret I've never been an advocate for the Affordable Care Act.
-
I was really enjoying one of the screenings of 'Beautiful Creatures' and there was this little 14-year-old boy sitting next to me in the screening and I was laughing at all the jokes and I just felt really judged. I had to keep it down a bit. It's a bit embarrassing.
-
Under current law, most Americans can sue their HMO or insurance company if it denies care and a patient dies or is injured as a result. Again, most employees of small businesses already can sue their HMO. Only those employees who work in companies with "self-insured" plans are not able to sue, as these plans operate under the federal Employee Retirement, Insurance, Security Act.
-
We fall into the old stuff of textuality, and almost everything becomes safe because nobody wants to talk about what is not safe in poetry. We fall back on the psychologic, the ethnic, the quota, and serve the perpetuation of the machine.
-
I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.
-
I don't promise to forget the mystery, but I know I'll have a marvelous time.
-
Being eaten by a crocodile is just like going to sleep...in a giant blender.
-
While free software was meant to force developers to lose sleep over ethical dilemmas, open source software was meant to end their insomnia.
