17 posts tagged QuoteOfNote

An excellent description of life in my house growing up, by Garrison Keillor of Salon magazine: A college graduate just sent me an e-mail asking about a band that "one" a contest, wishing she had been "their" to see it. Misspelling drives me nuts. You young people learned spelling by the Close Enough method.

An excellent description of life in my house growing up, by Garrison Keillor of Salon magazine: A college graduate just sent me an e-mail asking about a band that "one" a contest, wishing she had been "their" to see it. Misspelling drives me nuts. You young people learned spelling by the Close Enough method.

It is a crime to play on patriotism to further the aims of hatred. And it is a crime to worship the sabre as a modern god when all of human science is labouring to hasten the triumph of truth and justice.

"We are going to be butting up against the physical capacity of the Internet by 2010." Jim Cicconi, vice president of legislative affairs for AT&T, quoted here. Technorati Tags: AT&T, Internet, QuoteOfNote, Stupidity

"The auction . . . failed to produce a much-needed competitor to the phone and cable giants. Since Verizon -- winner of the C Block -- is already a dominant provider of DSL, the prospect of a genuine third pipe competitor in the wireless world is now slim to none." Ben Scott, policy director, Free Press, quoted here.

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes

“If the ‘Save the Internet’ crowd wants to see the biggest threat to Internet freedom and innovation they should look in the mirror, because their own shrill calls for more intrusive government action are the gravest threat the otherwise-thriving Internet faces.” Americans for Prosperity’s policy director Phil Kerpen, 2/22/08.

"The only kinds of fights worth having are those you're going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins. In order for somebody to win an important, major fight 100 years hence, a lot of other people have got to be willing -- for the sheer fun and joy of it -- to go right ahead and fight, knowing you're going to lose.

"The only kinds of fights worth having are those you're going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins. In order for somebody to win an important, major fight 100 years hence, a lot of other people have got to be willing -- for the sheer fun and joy of it -- to go right ahead and fight, knowing you're going to lose.

"I have not seen anything that leads me to believe, as the President seems to believe, that providing amnesty to these companies [telcos] is a more compelling public interest than our Constitutionally protected right to privacy.