Anita Borg Quotes

We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.

Anita Borg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 17, 1949 - April 6, 2003

Topics

HistoryBuildingImpactPolitical

You know, I'd like to sit here and blame everybody else for my trouble. I just can't do that. I can't find it in myself to do it.

Joe Nichols

MyselfBlameYouFindTroubleKnow

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

CowardSafeOnlyHeThreatens

Mental illness affects everyone.

Mauro Ranallo

Mental IllnessEveryoneIllness

Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks.

Steven Rattner

GovernmentOutStayLiberalsShould

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Tom Stoppard

ChildhoodYouBecomeNeverCarry

We must carefully consider card security solutions, such as adding photographs or machine-readable electronic strips, so to prevent further breaches of individual privacy that could result from changes to the design of Social Security Cards.

Ron Lewis

DesignResultSecurityCardsPrivacy

I really think that it's better to retire, in Uncle Earl's terms, when you still have some snap left in your garters.

Russell B. Long

ThinkBetterYouUncleRetireLeft

Of course my family and friends are incredibly valuable to me. They keep me sane, they teach me things and I love spending time with them. I think that ranking what you value is a sort of western and linear way of looking at things.

Julia Stiles

FamilyLoveTimeValueMeLooking

When you're making the film, you don't really think the audience; it's only when you start editing that you really start to became aware of your audience because you're thinking of how you communicate these ideas, and how lucid can you be, and yet stay within the language you've established.

Jonathan Glazer

IdeasStartThinkThinkingLanguage

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

Deborah Bull

WordsLanguageYouPowerfulBody

I grew up with horses and cattle, running around on dirt hills with this real sense of space. We didn't have neighbours - well, the nearest ones were kilometres away.

Deborah Mailman

SpaceRealDirtUpHillsWell

Neil Armstrong was no Christopher Columbus. In most respects, he was better. Unlike the famous fifteenth century seafarer, Armstrong knew where he landed. He also spent his time in public service, not in jail, and his passing was marked by world-wide encomiums. He ended his days as a celebrated explorer rather than a royal inconvenience.

Seth Shostak

TimeServicePublic ServiceBetter

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