#net

Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around. ↗

— Sylvia Earle

#around #bay #belt #big #big fish

Generally, social networking sites can be hugely promising and beneficial in opening new friendships and vistas and knowledge of the world, but they are also fraught with peril, when young people are reckless or headless. ↗

— Richard Blumenthal

#beneficial #fraught #friendships #generally #hugely

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age. ↗

— Matt Blunt

#age #changes #economy #government #internet

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#content #define #genius #his #inspiration

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#conclusion #false #hundredth #i #i am

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking. ↗

— George Eliot

#entertain #grounds #liking #make #make up

During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts. ↗

— David Bohm

#air travel #almost #communication #contact #decades

When you think of Napster, you think of music. But the first thing that struck me was that this was an important case not only for the music industry but for the whole Internet. ↗

— David Boies

#first #first thing #important #industry #internet

Certainly I'm not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I'm a sponge. I've always been a sponge. ↗

— Eminem

#all day #always #been #certainly #day

With the internet, things are so much more immediate. People taste-test things to see if they want to buy the CD. ↗

— Michael Bolton

#cd #immediate #internet #more #much