Edward Felten Quotes
We're in a situation where the solutions that we have are not good enough. The way to improve anything is to have a discussion about its flaws. To understand what the one or two or three things are about it that would help fix it. The DMCA makes it dangerous to have that conversation.
Quotes to Explore
-
I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
-
Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
-
Today's designers don't care if fashion has no relationship to human anatomy.
-
I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
-
As people want to move money around the world, they're going to be moving in and out of bitcoin quickly, but they're still going to own it for some period of time... and the size of that working capital requirement will grow as the global economy grows.
-
In 1775, no fewer than nine colonies had established churches, ranging from Congregational establishments in New Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachusetts to Episcopal churches in the southern states from Maryland on down.
-
There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among the dragons.' You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you're sunk.
-
You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.
-
Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
-
All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
-
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
-
We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
-
Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.
-
When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
-
I've always been attracted to action stuff.
-
Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
-
Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.
-
There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
-
Health is not simply the absence of illness. Real health is the will to overcome every form of adversity and use even the worst of circumstances as a springboard for new growth and development. Simply put, the essence of health is the constant renewal and rejuvenation of life.
-
And the truth is I've always taken very good care of my skin, and always, always worn make-up.
-
I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.
-
Modeling can be a bit brain damaging. Starting my own brand was what I needed to do. I only model if there are such good jobs that you don't want to say no to. All that dressing up makes me say, 'What do I want to wear?' and, 'What do I want to do with Topshop?' It all kind of leads into the other things.
-
We had this unbelievable faith that no business has done, quite frankly, and we tripped along the way doing it, but within two years, we were in 40-plus countries. So we ran at an amazing pace, and this is where venture capitalists play a role. Making Groupon into what it is today, we had no role in it; the entrepreneurs did it.
-
We're in a situation where the solutions that we have are not good enough. The way to improve anything is to have a discussion about its flaws. To understand what the one or two or three things are about it that would help fix it. The DMCA makes it dangerous to have that conversation.
