#d

We are set to make very bad history. ↗

— Tom Wilson

#history #make #set #very

Despite what we knitters know to be true, the non-knitting world somehow persists in thinking that a "knitter" looks a certain way. Most likely, this picture is one of an elderly woman, grandmotherly and polite, sitting in her rocking chair surrounded by homemade cookies and accompanied by a certain number of cats. In reality, a knitter today is just as likely to be young, hip, male, and sitting at a "Stitch and Bitch" in a local bar. Several of today's best knitting designers are men, and a knitter is as likely to have body piercings as homemade cookies. Despite our diversity, the tendency to be accompanied by a cat is an oddity among knitters that cannot be explained. ↗

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

#design

And if we think that laws designed to prevent crime can indeed make the world a safer place, we should ask ourselves this: How exactly, is the world made a safer place by making self-control and responsibility irrelevant? ↗

— Jeff Snyder (Nation of Cowards)

#constitution #politics #design

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#contribution #direction #give #help #help others

The modern West has been deeply split about freedom and responsibility. On the one hand, it has championed human freedom in many forms - human rights, sexual freedom, political liberty, freedom to choose in many spheres. On the other hand, many of its most intelligent members have not believed that people are free at all, and have devoted great efforts to show that really we are the product of our genes, our unconscious drives, our education, economic pressures, or other forms of conditioning. ↗

— David F. Ford

#freedom #modernity #paradox #education

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#anybody #first #first thing #getting #giddy

Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It's just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads. ↗

— David Boies

#allow #central #classified #data #going

The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful. ↗

— David Boies

#audio #consumers #copying #directly #home

When you think of Napster, you think of music. But the first thing that struck me was that this was an important case not only for the music industry but for the whole Internet. ↗

— David Boies

#first #first thing #important #industry #internet

The dreadful burden of having nothing to do. ↗

— Nicolas Boileau

#dreadful #having #nothing