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People Quotes by Howard Rheingold
- When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology,
- It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.
- Any virtual community that works, works because people put in some time.
- Craigslist is about authenticity. Craig has paid his dues, and people respect him.
- I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.
- The AP has only so many reporters, and CNN only has so many cameras, but we've got a world full of people with digital cameras…
- Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.
- A lot of people use collaborative technologies badly, then abandon them. They aren't 'plug-and-play.' The invisible part is the social skill necessary to use them.
- Communicating online goes back to the Defense Department's Arpanet which started in 1969. There was something called Usenet that started in 1980, and this gave…
- Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers…
- People's social networks do not consist only of people they see face to face. In fact, social networks have been extending because of artificial media…
- Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys…
- Mobile communications and pervasive computing technologies, together with social contracts that were never possible before, are already beginning to change the way people meet, mate,…
- On the Internet, it is assumed people are in business to sell out, not to build something they can pass along to their grandkids.
- People move from place to place and job to job, but they no longer need to lose touch.
- Attention is the fundamental instrument we use for learning, thinking, communicating, deciding, yet neither parents nor schools spend any time helping young people learn how…
- Schoolchildren are not taught how to distinguish accurate information from inaccurate information online - surely there are ways to design web-browsers to help with this…
- There is never going to be a substitute for face-to-face communication, but we have seen since the alphabet, to the telephone and now the Internet,…
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