"The public is eager for stories of True……" — Charles Platt
"The public is eager for stories of True Cybercrime, and the media is happy to glamorize the subject. But when teenagers take the bait and live out our fantasies for us, we punish them for frightening us too much."
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Charles Platt
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18 Quotes by Charles Platt
Charles Platt has 18 quotes on this site.
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At 3-D Imax theaters, audiences have shown they are willing to pay a premium to wear headgear fitted with liquid-crystal…
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The landscape of the Net has changed; that cyberfrontier of the past has become a teeming city of people, transactions,…
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Everyone knows that the broadband era will breed a new generation of online services, but this is only half of…
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The always-on economy, by definition, depends upon continuous energy.
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Unsurprisingly, an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) - once a luxury for room-sized computer installations - is now a standard item…
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When the International Space Station is finally launched, it will be fitted with special nickel-hydrogen batteries weighing a total of…
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Merchandise from Wal-Mart has become as ubiquitous as the water supply. Yet, still, the company is rebuked and reviled by…
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Despite (or because of) a free public school system, millions of teenagers enter the work force without marketable skills. So…
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If low-temperature fusion does exist and can be perfected, power generation could be decentralized. Each home could heat itself and…
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Watching cold fusion is like watching water boil in slow motion. First, sufficient deuterium has to penetrate the palladium electrode.…
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Even if major funding is obtained for cold fusion, conceivably the phenomenon could suffer from problems as intractable as those…
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In Finland in the winter, when the sky is totally choked with clouds, the country becomes one big sensory deprivation…
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In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering…
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Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in…
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Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
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Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.
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In a position of this sort, even though the enemy should offer us an attractive bait, it will be advisable…
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All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to…
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Baby's fishing for a dream, fishing near and far. His line a silver moonbeam is, his bait a silver star.
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Nile perch are enormous but lethargic fish, easy to catch once they have taken your bait. Some are bright golden…
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For evil news rides post, while good news baits.
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Stand in despair anywhere old-growth forest has been clear-felled. All life has been replaced by blackened, poisoned desolation. Animals and…
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The scheme of separate confederacies, which will always multiply the chances of ambition, will be a never failing bait to…
— Alexander Hamilton
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An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head…
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