Craig Detweiler Quotes
The iGods started pure—Google wasn’t sure they wanted advertising. Going public with their stock resulted in the need for quarterly returns. It forced Google and Facebook to bow down to the even greater gods of commerce. The question of access remains. Who will control the flow of information? Will a few get rich at the expense of others? Techno-enthusiasts at the annual TED conference envision a gift economy where the sharing of ideas leads to profound breakthroughs in science and education. Others fear the controlling power of information technology. What happens when the information we share freely is aggregated aggressively, when too much information lands in the hands of the wrong company or country?
Quotes to Explore
-
Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
-
I went to Floridita on Wardour Street when I was 18. All I could afford was pumpkin soup and a glass of champagne, but it was worth it.
-
Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.
-
I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
-
We have four beautiful children and some wonderful memories.
-
Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
-
Every artist was first an amateur.
-
I never thought I'd live this long. It sounds funny because I still think of myself as a kid.
-
I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
-
There is a lot more to me than just being a crazy fighter.
-
We have heard time and time again in the course of our work how talking can help heal the hidden challenges we can't deal with alone.
-
The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
-
The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
-
Usually when I take my films to festivals, I feel incredibly anxious about them. I wonder how it will be received, how the audience will react. I feel deeply responsible for them.
-
I've had fans come and knock on my door. I'm usually polite, but I'm usually very direct and say, 'It's not cool that you come here uninvited.'
-
Anything's possible in politics.
-
All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
-
The missing toothbrush was nothing compared with the fact that the spacecraft was orientated to ascend, not descend. I would have gone up and up instead of going back down to the ground.
-
The classic epic fantasy is good versus evil, underdog against power.
-
Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all.
-
I didn't want to send anyone down there on secondhand information.
-
It's disgraceful and embarrassing that the highest technology in a typical city high school in this country is the metal detector the students pass through at the front door.
-
People simply learn to process information to the point where it doesn't serve true creativity.
-
The iGods started pure—Google wasn’t sure they wanted advertising. Going public with their stock resulted in the need for quarterly returns. It forced Google and Facebook to bow down to the even greater gods of commerce. The question of access remains. Who will control the flow of information? Will a few get rich at the expense of others? Techno-enthusiasts at the annual TED conference envision a gift economy where the sharing of ideas leads to profound breakthroughs in science and education. Others fear the controlling power of information technology. What happens when the information we share freely is aggregated aggressively, when too much information lands in the hands of the wrong company or country?
