Douglas Rushkoff Quotes

Technology has moved away from sharing and toward ownership. This suits software and hardware companies just fine: They create new, bloated programs that require more disk space and processing power. We buy bigger, faster computers, which then require more complex operating systems, and so on.

Douglas Rushkoff

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TechnologyPowerSpaceComputersNew

The United States came out of the 1990s, if anything, in an even greater position of hegemony and preeminence than it was at the beginning of the 1990s.

John Lewis Gaddis

BeginningOutPositionAnythingEven

The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.

Robert Smithson

NostalgiaBlissCalmnessSurround

I had a great job with the Knicks.

Jeff Van Gundy

GreatJobGreat JobHadKnicks

Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change.

Jeff Goodell

ChangeFightDebateClimate Change

Products are sold because they solve a problem or fill a need. Understanding problems and needs involves understanding customers and what makes them tick.

Steve Blank

ProblemsUnderstandingProblemNeed

Given the scale of issues like global warming and epidemic disease, we shouldn't underestimate the importance of a can-do attitude to science rather than a can't-afford-it attitude.

Martin Rees

AttitudeScienceUnderestimateGlobal

I was making music simultaneously while studying B. Sc. and M. Sc.

Mohit Chauhan

MusicStudyingMakingWhile

I've been in L.A., but I wasn't acting. I didn't know that I wanted to act, so I was in L.A. but working at a restaurant seven days a week and trying to figure out what I wanted to do and all that kind of stuff.

Mircea Monroe

RestaurantWeekTryingActingKnow

We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source.

Mitchell Baker

CommunityPeopleThinkYouActive

I really consider acting a high art.

Miles Teller

ArtActingHighConsiderReally

I moved to New York on October 21, 2004, and it was the day that the Chelsea Grill, a restaurant in Hell's Kitchen on 9th Avenue between 46th and 47th Street, opened. I had never waited a table in my life, but I walked in and lied to the manager in a very J. Pierrepont Finch way.

Jonathan Groff

LifeDayNew YorkKitchenRestaurant

The American people hit the streets and did something that the government wouldn't do: the Civil Rights Act. It didn't go down well with the corporate world.

Dick Van Dyke

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