Douglas Rushkoff Quotes

Open source is a beautiful way of collaborating; but what's happening on the free Internet is more akin to the 'crowdsourcing' of journalists and other content creators by advertisers who no longer have to pay them - only the search engines that parse their articles.

Douglas Rushkoff

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If I pick up a guitar, I don't practise scales. I never have. I come up with something I haven't done before, new approaches to chord sequences, riffs, rhythms, so it becomes composition. It's not like the music I'm doing is just a single thread.

Jimmy Page

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Once again, no one in charge had given any thought to the possibility that a woman would be involved.

Andrea Mitchell

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We don't go into a market without a chance of a 40 percent share and sustainable differentiation. We wouldn't get into wiring oil rigs if we didn't believe we could get 40 percent.

John T. Chambers

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Too many of us suffer from pervasive feelings of personal powerlessness. We have a terrible habit of obstructing our own paths forward, especially at the worst possible moments.

Amy Cuddy

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Writing is so fun precisely because if you take out the right adjective, the readers can decide what kind of book is in their hands. Suspension of disbelief should not be mandatory in contemporary writing.

Alvaro Enrigue

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In the bit of painting that I've done, I'm interested in colour and texture. I'm very interested in transparency.

Stephen Hough

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I've written and passed laws to give Medicare beneficiaries access to life saving cancer drugs and to ensure that seniors don't have to give up the prospect of a cure when they go into hospice care.

Ron Wyden

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I always know when a novel is going to be a Barbara Vine one. In fact I believe that if I weren't to write it as Barbara Vine, I wouldn't be able to write it at all.

Ruth Rendell

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I lost both my parents young - but I have felt their presence throughout my life.

Roma Downey

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The reason why I've been keeping private for the longest time ever here, I've always wanted to protect my wife's privacy. I don't like - I didn't want to put her picture all over the news. I just wanted to keep her private.

Michael Schiavo

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The thing that I'm known for - at least, depending on what Subreddit you go to - is being a comedian. And so, even when talking about heavy things, I still want to try to use humor to walk us in the door.

Wyatt Cenac

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I need someone who understands an artist's mentality. I couldn't be with someone who wouldn't let me have my freedom.

Kelly Reilly

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