My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It’s in the education business. Nicholas Negroponte Read Quote
It is easy to be seen as either a genius or a crank. If you have a Ph.D., at least you somewhat lower the chances that you will be seen as a crank. Evgeny Morozov Read Quote
Our team has always believed that neither cost and distance should ever prevent people from connecting with their friends and loved ones, and won’t rest until everyone, everywhere is empowered with that opportunity. Jan Koum Read Quote
Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own. Raoul Vaneigem Read Quote
The last thing we want to see, given the success of the peace process, is the return of installations along the Irish border. Martin McGuinness Read Quote
Donna Summer would be remembered as a ground-breaking artist today even if she’d retired the day after she recorded ‘I Feel Love’ in 1977. Rob Sheffield Read Quote
You can’t escape culture. You can learn about it. You can criticize it. You can try to move it slowly. But at the end of the day, you can’t actually opt out of the culture that you’re in. Adam Conover Read Quote
The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC. Gary Wolf Read Quote
When we are not extracting wealth from nature, we are extracting it from the working and middle classes. Anohni Read Quote