#log

The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#around #censorship #internet #malfunction #routes

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#asking #blinds #government #install #like

I've got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don't want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I'd rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny – a thousand things, before 'thin'. And frankly, I'd rather they didn't give a gust of stinking chihuahua flatulence whether the woman standing next to them has fleshier knees than they do. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons. Let them never be Stupid Girls. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#girls #thin #funny

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. ↗

— Dave Barry

#call #communication #development #history #human

The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example. ↗

— Dave Barry

#dennis #example #explained #full #laws

When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves. ↗

— John Barrymore

#arms #boxing #discover #find #gloves

Why did the Clinton Administration continue to liberalize export controls on sensitive technologies even after it learned that China had stolen designs? ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#after #china #clinton #clinton administration #continue

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#away #character #done #during #i

When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together. ↗

— John Berger

#psychology #suffering #experience

Well, I don't know too many governors who are flaming ideologues. ↗

— Birch Bayh

#governors #i #ideologues #know #many