#log

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#calls #century #change #charging #did

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#because #biological #birth #cannot #eighteen

I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#aggression #aspect #behavior #difficult #had

I approve designs not because I think I am more gifted or somebody who can see ahead three or four years from now, but just to make sure that the design is a logical, rational decision, taken after analyzing pros and cons. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#ahead #am #analyzing #approve #because

There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other. ↗

— James J. Gibson

#between #great #gulf #hand #meaning

Blogs are for anoraks who couldn't get published any other way. ↗

— Janet Street-Porter

#blogs #get #other #published #way

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced. ↗

— Andre Gide

#annoys #artificial #bores #constructs #eludes

But when it comes to writing the thing that I've sort of been thinking about lately, is why? You know, is it rational? Is it logical that anybody should be expected to be afraid of the work that they feel they were put on this Earth to do. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#afraid #anybody #been #comes #earth

We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

#biological #embedded #organisms #related #us

The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

#evolution #human #inheritance #our #place