{"id":6099,"date":"2012-02-15T14:26:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T08:26:46","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-02-15T14:26:47","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T08:26:47","slug":"sourced-quotes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/sourced-quotes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sourced Quotes, 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I see three oranges, I juggle; when I see two towers, I walk. &#8212; Philipe Petit (who tightroped between the Twin Towers), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Man-Wire-Philippe-Petit\/dp\/160239332X\/ref=sr_1_1_title_0_main?s=books&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1329109448&#038;sr=1-1\">Man on Wire, 2002, p. 213<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Slowly slowly, form follows funding. &#8212;  Clay Shirky, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirky.com\/weblog\/2012\/01\/newspapers-paywalls-and-core-users\/\">Newspapers, Paywalls, and Core Users, January 4, 2012.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The web is evolving from a place to find things, into a place to do things. \u2013 Reid Smith, <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=zQ34EoZO2IYC&#038;pg=PA225&#038;lpg=PA225&#038;dq=Reid+Smith,+Knowledge+Technologies+Conference,+2001&#038;source=bl&#038;ots=743u48ClIL&#038;sig=yAeezXZ77tm9zlH7rhxxV89HAHo&#038;hl=en&#038;sa=X&#038;ei=-mY4T--jKojjiALgsqzICg&#038;ved=0CEcQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&#038;q=Reid%20Smith%2C%20Knowledge%20Technologies%20Conference%2C%202001&#038;f=false\">Knowledge Technologies Conference, 2001<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[In the publishing business] the readers are the product, and the customers are the advertisers. &#8212; Dave Winer, <a href=\"http:\/\/scripting.com\/stories\/2011\/12\/29\/morningCoffeeNotes.html\">Scripting News, December 29,2011.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The hallmark of a deep explanation is that it answers more than you ask. &#8212; Max Tegmark, Our Universe Grew Like a Baby, <a href=\"http:\/\/edge.org\/response-detail\/2917\/what-is-your-favorite-deep-elegant-or-beautiful-explanation\">Edge, January 16, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The biggest surprise for any new president is the strain placed upon the \u201cdecision-making muscle,\u201d since the choices that come upon him every day are precisely those the rest of the government has not been able to resolve. &#8212; James Fallow, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2012\/03\/obama-explained\/8874\/2\/\">Obama Explained, The Atlantic, March 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I saw the best minds of my generation&#8230; writing spam filters. \u2013 Neal Stephenson, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&#038;v=TE0n_5qPmRM\">Getting Big Things Done, Solve For X, February 2, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I prefer pirates to SOPA. I would rather lose a piece of my profits than lose access to others&#8217; thoughts. &#8212; Greg Stolze, <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/107584262029860926683\/posts\/BBhhy7Puiei\">Google+ January 18, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you struggle financially, upgrade your social skills. Money flows through people. &#8212; Steve Pavlina, <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/102549623343643093965\/posts\/eHwEvcLDup5\">Google+, January 16, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Time and accident are committing daily havoc on the originals of the valuable historical and State papers deposited in our public offices \u2026 let us save what remains not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time but by such a multiplication of copies as shall place them beyond the reach of accident. &#8212; Thomas Jefferson<br \/>\nThomas Jefferson to Ebenezer Hazard, Philadelphia, February 18, 1791. In <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=mzdLAAAAYAAJ&#038;pg=RA1-PA127\">Thomas Jefferson: Writings: Autobiography, Notes on the State of Virginia<\/a>, Public and Private Papers, Addresses, Letters, edited by Merrill D. Peterson. New York: Library of America<\/p>\n<p>[Tim Berners-Lee] told me about his proposed system called the \u2018World Wide Web.\u2019 And I thought, well, that\u2019s got a pretentious name. \u2013 Ian Ritchie, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/ian_ritchie_the_day_i_turned_down_tim_berners_lee.html?quote=1108\">TEDGobal Talk, July 2011<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/\/duty_calls.png\" alt=\"Duty calls\" border=\"0\" width=\"300\" height=\"330\" \/> Classic internet cartoon from <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/386\/\">xkcd<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I see three oranges, I juggle; when I see two towers, I walk. &#8212; Philipe Petit (who tightroped between the Twin Towers), Man on Wire, 2002, p. 213 Slowly slowly, form follows funding. &#8212; Clay Shirky, Newspapers, Paywalls, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/sourced-quotes-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[1429],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}