#mm

Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original language but Israel. When we started 64 years ago, we were 650,000 people. So, you know, we are maybe swimming a little bit against the stream, but we continue to swim. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#ago #bit #continue #east #exile

The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#communications #control #created #facebook #internet

Xerox did OK in moving to digital in the commercial space. They didn't do well in the consumer market, but they're not a consumer brand. They don't even know how to spell consumer. ↗

— Antonio Perez

#commercial #consumer #did #digital #even

When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over. ↗

— John Perkins

#culture #day #detector #found #immediately

No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane. ↗

— Richard Perle

#assign #commander #computer #could #done

Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far Left and far Right. ↗

— Richard Perle

#cause #common #common cause #exclude #extremists

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#every #languages #our #programming #were

LISP programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#everything #know #lisp #nothing #programmers

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#change #languages #manage #programming #progress

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses. ↗