#cult

As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#difficulty #early #economics #getting #i

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written. ↗

— Mark Strand

#comforts #culture #entertainment #forms #given

The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play. ↗

— Richard Strauss

#difficult #human #human voice #instrument #most

I think nowadays it doesn't really matter where we are physically located. We create our own culture around us to a large extent, whether it's what we're listening to, what we're watching, what we're reading - it can have very little to do with one's immediate cultural environment. We are in a global culture in that respect. ↗

— David Sylvian

#create #cultural #culture #environment #extent

Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#another way #created #cultural #examine #experience

I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate. ↗

— Todd Barry

#culture #i #know #much #pirate

It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#days #difficult #extremely #get #made

Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order. ↗

— Hans Kung

#cultural #economic #global #humanity #introduce

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#consequences #cultural #generations #hence #most

A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#change #culture #free #future #now