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People Quotes by Douglas Rushkoff
- It's also hard for people to contend with the difficult possibility that we are simply overadvanced fungi and bacteria hurtling through a galaxy in cold,…
- If we stop believing in a future, if we stop doing things for something else but start doing them for now, some fundamental things change.…
- Invest in people who will take care of you when you're old.
- Web sites are designed to keep young people from using the keyboard, except to enter in their parents' credit card information.
- Marketers spend millions developing strategies to identify children's predilections and then capitalize on their vulnerabilities. Young people are fooled for a while, but then develop…
- Social media is itself as temporary as any social gathering, nightclub or party. It's the people that matter, not the venue. So when the trend…
- The easiest way to figure out who the customer is in an online space is to figure out who is paying for the thing. Usually,…
- We know that people are less open in conversations if the other conversant puts a cell phone on the table. Even if it's turned off.…
- As a professional journalist who nonetheless champions a 'people's' Internet, I am happy to compete against the thousands of amateur bloggers out there reporting and…
- As a writer and sometime activist who needs to promote my books and articles and occasionally rally people to one cause or another, I found…
- Digital technology is both arousing and distancing. We don't look at the users on the other side as people. They aren't - they're just usernames,…
- Files on iTunes - and thus iPods - are incompatible with everything else. Applications on iPhones may only be sold and uploaded through the iPhone…
- I am much less concerned with whatever it is technology may be doing to people that what people are choosing to do to one another…
- I don't know of any other form of life that gathers up all the food it needs in the first two-thirds of its life in…
- Jobs, as such, are a relatively new concept. People may have always worked, but until the advent of the corporation in the early Renaissance, most…
- Mobile notifications put people in a state of perpetual emergency interruption - similar to what 911 operators and air traffic controllers experienced back in the…
- No matter how invasive the technologies at their disposal, marketers and pollsters never come to terms with the living process through which people choose products…
- People are seduced by signals from the world, but that is manipulation, not reality. Computers have learned more about us than we've learned about them.
- The iPad - contrary to the way most people thought about it - is not a tablet computer running the Apple operating system. It's more…
- Unlike the Tea Party, who see themselves as the customers of government, people in the Occupy Wall Street movement understand that we are the government.…
- Computers don't kill books; people do.
More People Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle