Charles Platt Quotes

Everyone knows that the broadband era will breed a new generation of online services, but this is only half of the story. Like any innovation, broadband will inflict major changes on its environment. It will destroy, once and for all, the egalitarian vision of the Internet.

Charles Platt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: May 9, 1945

Topics

InnovationVisionStoryGeneration

The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.

Anna Quindlen

FutureCultureSchoolPeopleTalking

Creative writing lessons can be very useful, just like music lessons can be useful. To say, as Hanif Kureishi did, that 99.9% of students are talentless is cruel and wrong. I believe that certain writers like to believe they arrived into the world with special, unteachable powers because it is good for the ego.

Matt Haig

GoodMusicCreativeWritingWorld

I just wanted to keep growing and touring with my band.

Trombone Shorty

GrowingBandKeepJustWanted

People always say 'You do racial comedy.' And I don't, exactly. I do cultural comedy. Because race and culture are two different things. There's black people from America and then there's black people from Africa. Racially, they're the same; culturally, they're extremely different.

Russell Peters

CulturePeopleBlackComedyAmerica

I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.

Juan Cole

BalanceGovernmentPeopleResearch

I realized no matter how famous you are, you're still human, and sometimes you need a chicken wing!

Joshua Henry

FamousYouSometimesChickenMatter

I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren.

Brock Yates

ChildrenGrandchildrenTwoFourTiny

I am 73 years old. I've seen everything. I've met the kings, the queens, the presidents, I've been around the world. I have one thing that I would like to do: to try to reach peace.

Ariel Sharon

PeaceI AmWorldReachKingsTry

You get butterflies when you see all the fans screaming.

William Singe

YouSeeFansGetButterflies

Honestly, I've been very blessed. Yes, I am cursed with this gift.

Wilmer Valderrama

I AmBlessedGiftYesBeenVery

I long for the old days of Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn, stars who had real glamour and mystique. We only knew so much about their lives; the rest was a mystery.

Pixie Lott

StarsRestMysteryLongOldGlamour

It is very a dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

Phyllis Bottome

PracticeYouDangerousWillIdea

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