Nick Bilton Quotes

In the past, history was always written by the victors. But in the age of Twitter, history is written by everyone.

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• The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.

  

  Irving R. Kaufman
  • History
  • System
  • Finding

• All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • World
  • History
  • Christian

• Every day it seems more likely that we are destined - or should one say doomed? - to replay the disastrous economic history of the 1930s.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • History
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Women
  • History
  • Simple

• History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • History
  • Victim
  • Both

• I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Defeat
  • Thoughtful
  • Twitter

• If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • History
  • Present

• Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • People
  • History
  • Bear

• Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Up
  • Men
  • History

• If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.

  

  Dan Rather
  • History
  • Seat
  • Aisle

• History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.

  

  Irving Langmuir
  • History
  • Science
  • Human

• Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • God
  • History
  • True

• History shows us that people are terrible about guessing what is going to happen - next week, next month, and especially next year.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • People
  • History
  • Year

• Kierkegaard said that the only way we can be released from the enchantment, the siren song of the myths, is to play the music through backwards. To break the spell of the ego I must recover my personal and political history, I must demythologize the private, family, and public myths that have informed me.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Music
  • Family
  • History

• If we look to the saints, this great luminous wake with which God has passed through history, we truly see that here is a force for good that survives through millennia; here is truly light from light.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Good
  • Great
  • God

• Freedom has no history.

  

  Andrew Cohen
  • History
  • Freedom

• We have that storytelling history in country and bluegrass and old time and folk music, blues - all those things that combine to make up the genre. It was probably storytelling before it was songwriting, as far as country music is concerned. It's fun to be a part of that and tip the hat to that. You know, and keep that tradition alive.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

  

  Jawaharlal Nehru
  • History
  • Wall

• I'm completely absorbed by Peter Guralnick's definitive, two-part biography of Elvis Presley: 'Last Train To Memphis' and 'Careless Love.' Meticulously researched, this is a compelling mix of history, myth-busting, and, of course, some timeless music.

  

  Mark Billingham
  • Music
  • History

• I'm not good at chatting right away. Women have to be very patient with me, I suppose.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Good
  • Women
  • Right

• Comedy has to do with holding and releasing tension; it's very technical. It's more technical than drama.

  

  John Michael Higgins
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Life
  • Intellect

• Bravery is believing in yourself, and that thing nobody can teach you.

  

  El Cordobes
  • Teach
  • Bravery

• In the past, history was always written by the victors. But in the age of Twitter, history is written by everyone.

  

  Nick Bilton
  • History
  • Written
  • Twitter