Tim Berners-Lee Quotes

I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.

Tim Berners-Lee

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PeopleThinkFailSocialMachines

Have you ever tried to talk to a baby or a toddler? They never look you square in the eyes, they know about three words, and God forbid they ever ask you how you're doing. It's all about them!

Jen Kirkman

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What makes the United Nations an appropriate source of legitimacy for intervention is that it is the only place where the claims of the strong are put through the test of justification in front of the weak.

Michael Ignatieff

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I don't want to tell a 15 or 14 year old what they should be doing. I want them to tell me. And that's what I got when I met Justin Bieber for the first time.

Simon Cowell

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There are nothing but hardliners in Iran.

Tom Cotton

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As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous energy can work against me as a serious composer, slowly but surely you'll see me be quieter just so that people will listen.

Marvin Hamlisch

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That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.

Mary Astell

GoodHeartManNeverOwnWho

The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo.

Mitch Daniels

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If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic operation, is our anthropological - indeed, genetic - goal.

Joseph Brodsky

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I don't know any group of professionals that mobilize as fast and as often as chefs do when there are people who are in need.

Jose Andres

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Our mandate at Nerdist is that we only get involved with nice people around things that we love. We have the luxury of being in the demographic that we're programming for.

Chris Hardwick

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I'm terrified of cliches.

Anthony Doerr

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I won't give up swimming, even if it kills me. I love the rhythm of it.

Arturo O'Farrill

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