Users Quotes - Page 5

• Google Maps are phenomenal. Yep, ask an Apple user.

  Eric Schmidt

  Technology, Apples, Google

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• The methods that will most effectively minimize the ability of intruders to compromise information security are comprehensive user training and education. Enacting policies and procedures simply won't suffice. Even with oversight the policies and procedures may not be effective: my access to Motorola, Nokia, ATT, Sun depended upon the willingness of people to bypass policies and procedures that were in place for years before I compromised them successfully.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Years, Policies And Procedures, People

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• To this day we seem to act in the world as though we know what's right for everybody.

  Robert McNamara

  War, Drug, World

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• Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly'... Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and stamp the words 'user-friendly' on the cover.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Trying, Friendly

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• Revolutions, we must remember, are always made by minorities.

  Peter Kropotkin

  War, Drug, Minorities

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• Casual drug users should be taken out and shot.

  Daryl Gates

  Weed, Taken, Marijuana

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• Whether it's Facebook or Google or the other companies, that basic principle that users should be able to see and control information about them that they themselves have revealed to the companies is not baked into how the companies work. But it's bigger than privacy. Privacy is about what you're willing to reveal about yourself.

  Eli Pariser

  Google, Information, Able

  "5 Questions with Eli Pariser, Author of ‘The Filter Bubble’". Interview with Bryan Walsh, techland.time.com. May 16, 2011.

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• It seems reasonable to envision, for a time 10 or 15 years hence, a "thinking center" that will incorporate the functions of present-day libraries together with anticipated advances in information storage and retrieval and ... a network of such centers, connected to one another by wide-band communication lines and to individual users by leased-wire services.

  J. C. R. Licklider

  Communication, Science, Thinking

  J. C. R. Licklider, Robert W. Taylor (1990). “In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990”

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• And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and self-control are convertible terms. Prohibition, or that which it implies, is the direct negation of the term self-control. In order to save the small percentage of men who are too weak to resist their animal desires, it aims to put chains on every man, the weak and the strong alike. And if this is proper in one respect, why not in all respects? Yet, what would one think of a proposition to keep all men locked up because a certain number have a propensity to steal?

  Felix Mendelssohn

  Strong, War, Animal

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• Book cover, 'Reefer Club' Totalitarianism is when people believe they can punish their way to perfection.

  Newt Gingrich

  War, Believe, Book

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• [In] my era everybody smoked and everybody drank and there was no drug use

  Thomas A. Constantine

  War, Drug Use, Eras

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• If you say, "Would there were no wine" because of the drunkards, then you must say, going on by degrees, "Would there were no steel," because of the murderers, "Would there were no night," because of the thieves, "Would there were no light," because of the informers, and "Would there were no women," because of adultery.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  War, Wine, Night

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• Republic. I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose. Some words give you a feeling.

  John Wayne

  War, Mean, People

  "Fictional character: Davy Crockett". "The Alamo", 1960.

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• Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  War, Government, Law

  Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)

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• [There is] a duty in refusing to cooperate in any undertaking that violates the Constitutional rights of the individual. This holds in particular for all inquisitions that are concerned with the private life and the political affiliations of the citizens.

  Albert Einstein

  War, Rights, Political

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• So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief pursuit of ambitious minds.

  Edward Gibbon

  Military, War, Long

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• To make certain that crime does not pay, the government should take it over and try to run it.

  J. Norman Collie

  Running, War, Government

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• The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind.

  Ayn Rand

  War, Men, Evil

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.53, Penguin

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• We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past ... while we silence the rebels of the present.

  Henry Steele Commager

  War, Past, Silence

  "Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent". Book by Henry Steele Commager, 1954.

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• We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them.

  Alexander Bickel

  War, Law, Judging

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• I am against Prohibition because it has set the cause of temperence back twenty years; because it has substituted an ineffective campaign of force for an effective campaign of education; because it has replaced comparatively uninjurious light wines and beers with the worst kind of hard liquor and bad liquor; because it has increased drinking not only among men but has extended drinking to women and even children.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Children, War, Drinking

  William Randolph Hearst (1952). “William Randolph Hearst: a portrait in his own words”

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• The difference between a policy and a crusade is that a policy is judged by its results, while a crusade is judged by how good it makes its crusaders feel.

  Thomas Sowell

  War, Differences, Drug

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• Force loses its legitimacy when it is used instead of free and open discussion.

  Gustavo de Greiff

  War, Drug, Legitimacy

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• The fight against drug trafficking is a wildfire that threatens to consume those fundamental rights of the individual deliberately enshrined in our Constitution.

  Juan Guerrero Burciaga

  War, Fighting, Rights

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• The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.

  William E. Gladstone

  War, Drug, Majority

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