#kin

As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who would be killed in a major nuclear attack, with everything working as well as can be hoped and all foreseeable precautions taken, run to about fifty million. ↗

— George Wald

#as far as #attack #conservative #estimates #everything

I've experienced first-hand the wonderful work organizations like J Bar J do for young people in Central Oregon and I am encouraged that the federal government is taking an active role in the Cascade Youth and Family Center. ↗

— Greg Walden

#active role #am #bar #cascade #center

We are taking steps to fight the production of meth on our own soil through limiting access to precursor ingredients, supporting educational efforts and providing necessary resources to law enforcement. ↗

— Greg Walden

#educational #efforts #enforcement #fight #ingredients

I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#college #i #interest #international #kind

I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#guy #i #kind #much #very

People take issue with individual aspects of Wikipedia all the time. But it's kind of hard to hate the general idea of a free encyclopedia. It's like hating kittens. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#encyclopedia #free #general #hard #hate

The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#beer #encyclopedia #every #free #free speech

There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#argue #kind #pressure #real #social

Wikis and social networking are just tools. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#networking #social #tools

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#bicycle #carrying #i #invented #lazy