Douglas Rushkoff Quotes

I don't think tablets are where we should be focused. But I do think they could end up being an efficient way of delivering textbooks. They're just not really that, yet. There's all sorts of poisons and mined minerals and carnage that goes on to make a tablet. Way more than to print a book. Or a bunch of books.

Douglas Rushkoff

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BookThinkEndFocusedWayMore

For an international business such as ours, you can't localise without a local. That was a hard lesson for us. We had to be closer, physically present, which is when we put teams on the ground.

Joe Gebbia

BusinessPresentYouLessonHardUs

I did attend Catholic schools up to the ninth grade, and I admire much in the Catholic Church.

Matthew Scully

ChurchAdmireUpCatholic Schools

You have to design and program differently. Combat action in an MMO is so different to combat in a first-person shooter.

John Romero

ActionDesignYouDifferentShooter

I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.

Steve Earle

GoodNeighborNeverWal-MartMoved

The word 'midget' is a slur. It evolved from P. T. Barnum's era of circuses and freak shows. Society has evolved. So should our vocabulary. Language is a powerful tool. It does not just name our society. It shapes it.

Sinead Burke

SocietyNameLanguagePowerfulFreak

What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world?

Rocky Marciano

CityWorldChampionBetterWalking

I actually grew up in the 'burbs - New Rochelle, specifically, most famously home to Rob and Laura Petrie of 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'

Joshua Malina

ActorAnythingDifferentBeenElse

I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't.

Diane Abbott

WorkMarriageWanted

I like the architecture of lingerie.

Colleen Atwood

ArchitectureLikeLingerie

Getting to the top isn't bad, and it's probably best done as an afterthought.

Anne Wilson Schaef

BestBadDoneTopAfterthought

I love to travel. During normal workdays, sometimes it feels like I have to bludgeon ideas out of my soul - but when I'm traveling, relaxed and unpressured, the ideas just spill out.

Peter Lerangis

LoveSoulTravelIdeasMy SoulOut

What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.

Pete Townshend

PeopleTheatreStoryLookSometimes

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