Barton Gellman Quotes
As digital communications have multiplied, and NSA capabilities with them, the agency has shifted resources from surveillance of individual targets to the acquisition of communications on a planetary scale.

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Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.
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So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country.
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The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.
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Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources.
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One bipartisan policy tradition is to deny Americans the use of our own resources.
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In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
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Luckily for both the tech industry and Hollywood, there is only one thing that counts - use of the Internet is still growing exponentially, as consumers shift to digital everything from analog.
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Energy is one of the most precious battlefield resources, but it is risky and expensive to deliver in combat zones.
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Social is a better way to interact with digital world. It is better than search. Implications for... everything. Total change.
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I do not believe wealthy candidates should spend vast resources in their own campaigns.
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Digital India is about empowering the citizen - it's mobile, it's cloud, it's storage - we are in all those areas.
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The dynamic range of a digital camera is not that much greater than film, particularly if you push the ASA a little bit.
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It's not about revenues: The fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line.
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Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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I grew up in an age where I loved going and buying a physical record. Things that were digital and all that stuff, it wasn't around. So I loved going and buying an album and looking through the inserts and reading stuff and seeing pictures.
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I believe it to be one of the most important discipleship resources we have produced at Ligonier.
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We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.
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All economic activity is dependent upon that environment and its underlying resource base of forests, water, air, soil, and minerals. When the environment is finally forced to file for bankruptcy because its resource base has been polluted, degraded, dissipated, and irretrievably compromised, the economy goes into bankruptcy with it.
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The stored-program digital computer has three major attributes: it is fast, it is accurate, and it is stupid. The first two attributes are often used to disguise the third.
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
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Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.
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I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a challenge, whether it's big or small. Or that it finds me. I don't have like a career plan. Maybe I should, but I don't.
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I didn't get interested in education until I had kids.
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As digital communications have multiplied, and NSA capabilities with them, the agency has shifted resources from surveillance of individual targets to the acquisition of communications on a planetary scale.