#internet

One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction... ↗

— Clay Shirky

#change

Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource for understanding what people read, why, and how they feel about their reading experiences. ↗

— John Green

#internet #reading #technology #tumblr #experience

The human experience of weakness is God's blueprint for calling attention to the supremacy of his Son. When miserably failing people continue to belong to, believe in, and worship Jesus, God is happy. ↗

— Michael Spencer

#jesus #spirituality #supremacy-of-christ #weakness #experience

Jesus is compelling in the way the discovery of the stars or the experience of a one-of-a-kind romance is compelling. His presence draws you in to the deep. ↗

— Michael Spencer

#jesus #spirituality #experience

The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#modern-life #modern-society #modernity #modernity-is-a-sickness #slavery

When the Internet publicity began, I remember being struck by how much the world was not the way we thought it was, that there was infinite variation in how people viewed the world. ↗

— Eric Schmidt

#being #how #i #i remember #infinite

The culture of the Epic Fail, in its rituals of comic sacrifice, is a culture of sublimated predation. ↗

— Mark O'Connell

#witty #art

My Google-fu is strong. ↗

— China Miéville

#internet #internet

If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up. ↗

— Dorothy Gambrell

#librarian #library #metaphor #television #television

In my column series "The Main Thing," I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners. ↗

— Jim Barksdale

#between #both #business #column #communicate