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User talk:Sasquach

Pearl S. Buck. I added 10 quotes and did some arranging (sourced-attrib sections). Added a picture and remove the "stub" label.:Sasquach 17:37, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Chesty Puller Added a picture of good old Chesty and 1 quote attributed to him.:Sasquach 17:37, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Robert A. Heinlein Added 5 attrib qoutes and put in alpha order.:Sasquach 17:37, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Jack London Added 3 attrib quotes:Sasquach 17:37, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Oliver Herford Cleaned it up a bit :Sasquach 18:01, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Ann Landers Added 12 quotes. Formatted.:Sasquach 00:03, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

White Noise Formatted and organized the page. Removed stub mark--it seemed to have enough material. Sasquach 22:56, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Derek Audette Page was marked for cleanup. Formatted it and organized the different sections alphabetically. Removed cleanup tag.Sasquach 22:56, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Nazim Hikmet Added intro and moved into chronoligical order.Sasquach 04:28, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Joe Lewis Did cleanup and formatted. Removed cleanup tag. added link to wikipedia and lynx.Sasquach 02:49, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

I F Stone Added 1 sourced and 1 attrib quotes.Sasquach 04:34, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

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User:Arunram

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Gymnopaedia

In ancient Sparta the Gymnopaedia was a yearly celebration during which naked youths displayed their athletic and martial skills through the medium of dancing. The custom was introduced early in the seventh century BC, concurrently with the introduction of naked athletics, oiling the body for exercise so as to highlight its beauty, and the formalization of pederastic pedagogy.

Herodotus
The quotes in this section are retrieved from the George Campbell Macaulay translations that can be found at the Gutenberg project, see: http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/authrec?fk_authors=828 (Note: in that translation The Histories Book I-IV are in volume 1; Book V-IX are in volume 2).

The Histories, book VI, 67
Demaratos became an exile from Sparta to the Medes on account of a reproach which here follows:--After he had been deposed from the kingdom Demaratos was holding a public office to which he had been elected. Now it was the time of the Gymnopaidiai; and as Demaratos was a spectator of them, Leotychides, who had now become king himself instead of Demaratos, sent his attendant and asked Demaratos in mockery and insult what kind of a thing it was to be a magistrate after having been king; and he, vexed at the question, made answer and said that he himself had now had experience of both, but Leotychides had not; this question however, he said, would be the beginning either of countless evil or countless good fortune for the Lacedemonians. Having thus said, he veiled his head and went forth out of the theatre to his own house (...).

Plutarch
The quotes in this section are retrieved from the Aubrey Stewart and George Long translations that can be found at the Gutenberg project, see: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/0/3/14033/14033-h/14033-h.htm

Plutarch's Lives, Volume I (of 4), XIV

 * In this section Plutarch describes the laws Lykurgus had imposed on the Lacedaemonians during his reign (the message appears clear: no gay hanky-panky during gymnopaedia, unless you're married of course)...

(...) moreover, he imposed certain penalties on the unmarried men. They were excluded from the festival of the Gymnopaedia, in honour of Athene; and the magistrates ordered them during winter to walk naked round the market-place, and while doing so to sing a song written against themselves, which said that they were rightly served for their disobedience to the laws; and also they were deprived of the respect and observance paid by the young to the elders.

Lucian of Samosata (120–180)
The quotes in this section are retrieved from the Francis George Fowler and Henry Watson Fowler translations that can be found at the Gutenberg project, see:http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/authrec?fk_authors=1997.

Works of Lucian of Samosata, Volume 02 - Of Pantomine
The Lacedaemonians, who are reputed the bravest of the Greeks, ever since they learnt from Castor and Pollux the Caryatic (a form of dance which is taught in the Lacedaemonian town of Caryae), will do nothing without the accompaniment of the Muses: on the field of battle their feet keep time to the flute's measured notes, and those notes are the signal for theironset. Music and rhythm ever led them on to victory. To this day you may see their young men dividing their attention between dance and drill; when wrestling and boxing are over, their exercise concludes with the dance. A flute-player sits in their midst, beating time with his foot, while they file past and perform their various movements in rhythmic sequence, the military evolutions being followed by dances, such as Dionysus and Aphrodite love. Hence the song they sing is an invitation to Aphrodite and the Loves to join in their dance and revel; while the other (I should have said that they have two songs) contains instructions to the dancers: 'Forward, lads: foot it lightly: reel it bravely' (i.e. dance actively). It is the same with the chain dance, which is performed by men and girls together, dancing alternately, so as to suggest the alternating beads of a necklace. A youth leads off the dance: his active steps are such as will hereafter be of use to him on the field of battle: a maiden follows, with the modest movements that befit her sex; manly vigour, maidenly reserve,--these are the beads of the necklace. Similarly, their Gymnopaedia is but another form of dance.

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Władysław Sikorski

 Władysław Eugeniusz Sikorski (20 May 1881 – 4 July 1943) was a Polish general and politician. He distinguished himself leading Polish forces in World War I and the Polish-Soviet War, including the Battle of Warsaw. He later served a Prime Minister of Poland between 16 December 1922 and 26 May 1923. During World War II, Sikorski became prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile, Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Armed Forces, and a vigorous advocate of the Polish cause in the diplomatic sphere. He supported the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between Poland and the Soviet Union, which had been severed after the Soviet pact with Germany and the 1939 invasion of Poland—however, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin broke off Soviet-Polish diplomatic relations in April 1943 following Sikorski's request that the International Red Cross investigate the Katyń Forest massacre. Two months later, Sikorski died in a plane crash in Gibraltar, which was ruled an accident but has since inspired conspiracy theories that it was an assasination by either Nazi Germany or the Allied powers.

Quotes

 * We, the Poles, do not understand war as a symbol but as a real fight.
 * Original: My Polacy rozumiemy wojnę nie jak symbol, lecz jako prawdziwą walkę.
 * in World of Tanks: 1 Polski Odrodzony Batalion Pancerny im. gen. Sikorskiego and Cytatybaza: Władysław Sikorski

 * There is no happiness without patriotism.
 * Original: Nie ma mowy o szczęściu bez patriotyzmu.
 * in Święto szkoły, 25.05.2012 and Cytatybaza: Władysław Sikorski

 * One experienced minute sometimes teaches us more than a lifetime.
 * Original: Jedna przeżyta chwila czasami uczy nas więcej, aniżeli całe życie.
 * in Szkoła Podstawowa im. gen. Władysława Sikorskiego w Kostrzycy. Witaj na stronie głównej, World of Tanks: 4TP Polish Squad and Cytatybaza: Władysław Sikorski

 * Today it is time for strong and courageous people because only they can achieve victory and rid the world of tyranny.
 * Original: Dziś czas jest dla ludzi silnych i odważnych, ci bowiem tylko mogą uzyskać zwycięstwo i uwolnić świat od tyranii.
 * in Kazimierz Ziobro Poseł na Sejm RP and Cytatybaza: Władysław Sikorski

Tribute to General Wladyslaw Sikorski

 * ''We learned yesterday that the cause of the United Nations had suffered a most grievous loss. (Hear, hear.) It is my duty to express the feelings of this House, and to pay my tribute to the memory of a great Polish patriot and staunch ally General Sikorski. (Sympathetic cheers.) His death in the air crash at Gibraltar was one of the heaviest strokes we have sustained.    From the first dark days of the Polish catastrophe and the brutal triumph of the German war machine until the moment of his death on Sunday night he was the symbol and the embodiment of that spirit which has borne the Polish nation through centuries of sorrow and is unquenchable by agony. When the organized resistance of the Polish Army in Poland was beaten down, General Sikorski's first thought was to organize all Polish elements in France to carry on the struggle, and a Polish army of over 80,000 men presently took its station on the French fronts. This army fought with the utmost resolution in the disastrous battles of 1940. Part fought its way out in good order into Switzerland, and is today interned there. Part marched resolutely to the sea, and reached this island.     Here General Sikorski had to begin his work again. He persevered, unwearied and undaunted. The powerful Polish forces which have now been accumulated and equipped in this country and in the Middle East, to the latter of whom his last visit was paid, now await with confidence and ardor the tasks which lie ahead. General Sikorski commanded the devoted loyalty of the Polish people now tortured and struggling in Poland itself. He personally directed that movement of resistance which has maintained a ceaseless warfare against German oppression in spite of sufferings as terrible as any nation has ever endured. (Hear, hear.) This resistance will grow in power until, at the approach of liberating armies, It will exterminate the German ravagers of the homeland.     I was often brought into contact with General Sikorski in those years of war. I had a high regard for him, and admired his poise and calm dignity amid so many trials and baffling problems. He was a man of remarkable pre-eminence, both as a statesman and a soldier, His agreement with Marshal Stalin of July 30th, 1941, was an outstanding example of his political wisdom. Until the moment of his death he lived in the conviction needs of the common struggle and in the faith that a better Europe will arise in which a great and independent Poland will play an honorable part. (Cheers.) We British here and throughout the Commonwealth and Empire, who declared war on Germany because of Hitler's invasion of Poland and in fulfillment of our guarantee, feel deeply for our Polish allies in their new loss.     We express our sympathy to them, we express our confidence in their immortal qualities, and we proclaim our resolve that General Sikorski's work as Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief shall not have been done in vain. (Cheers.) The House would, I am sure, wish also that its sympathy should be conveyed to Madame Sikorski, who dwells here in England, and whose husband and daughter have both been simultaneously killed on duty.''
 * Winston Churchill in a speech in the House of Commons, July 7, 1943

 * Sikorski was a statesman, outstanding among the leaders of the Second World War. This position he owed to his character, his faith in ultimate victory, his clearness of decision and his energy in all actions. ...     Wladyslaw Sikorski bequeathed much to those he left behind, and the fact that Polands name became famous during the war was largely due to him. Great Britain lost in him a great friend and one of the champions of a just and wise world policy.
 * Karol Estreicher, in a speech in the UK, July 4, 1944

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Bill Murray

William James Murray (born September 21, 1950) is an American actor, comedian and writer.

Quotes

 * I don't know what my fans are going to think. It's definitely not what they're used to from me.
 * On his starring role in the drama The Razor's Edge, as quoted in Stills Magazine (1984)

 * I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.
 * Interview with Jessica Lee Jernigan (May 1999)

 * I think The Razor's Edge is a pretty good movie. But at the time, it was just as reviled as any other comedian doing a serious thing now. Like The Majestic [with Jim Carrey], movies where comedians go straight, people don't like them. It angers people, like you're taking something away from them. That's the response I got. I thought, "Well, aren't we all bigger than that?" I wasn't shocked by it, but I thought that the professional critics would be able to say, "OK, we shouldn't rule this out, because the guy normally does other stuff." Unless it's really despicable, then you have to just jump with both feet on the neck.
 * Rolling Stone Issue 903 (22 August 2002)

 * I think romance basically starts with respect. And new romance always starts with respect. I think I have some romantic friendships. Like the song “Love the One You’re With”; there is something to that. It’s not just make love to whomever you’re with, it’s just love whomever you’re with. And love can be seeing that here we are and there’s this world here. If I go to my room and I watch TV, I didn’t really live. If I stay in my hotel room and watch TV, I didn’t live today.
 * Interview with Rebecca Murray

 * Melancholic and lovable is the trick, right? You've got to be able to show that you have these feelings. In the game of life, you get these feelings and how you deal with those feelings. What you do when you are trying to deal with a melancholy. A melancholy can be sweet. It's not a mean thing, but it's something that happens in life — like autumn.
 * Interview with Thomas Chau

 * I always like to say to people who want to be rich and famous, try being rich first. See if that doesn't cover most of it.

The Razor's Edge (1984)

 * Co-written with John Byrum based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham.

As Larry Darrell:

 * This isn't the old Mister Sunshine.

 * When Piedmont died, I had to pay him back for my life. I found out there's another debt to pay — for the privilege of being alive. I thought Sophie was my reward for trying to live a good life. Uh uh. There is no payoff — not now.

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Talk:The Big Lebowski

STRANGER: My car! My baby! What the fuck are you doing, man?! STOP IT!!! While naming the man quoted here as "STRANGER" does create an interesting juxtaposition with Walter's "This is what happens when you FUCK a STRANGER in the ASS, Larry." I believe it might create some confusion that the man is in fact the character known as "the Stranger". Anyone else have an opinion?67.84.217.159 07:25, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Great Quotes: The Big Lebowski
You might as well just include the whole entire script unedited. That's how great this script is...

I'd also include Walter's "You're entering a world of pain" I like this one very much

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Talk:Mass culture

well... I'm not sure, if my cirtique makes sense, but aren't quotes supposed to be a little shorter? and listing a single quote under an extra point ('mass culture') makes it less overseeable.

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NCIS (TV series)

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 * NCIS: Seasons (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17) | Los Angeles: Seasons (1 2 3 4 5 6 7) | New Orleans: Seasons 1 2 3 4 5 6

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NCIS (2003–present) is a CBS network television series about a team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service that investigates any crime involving personnel or dependants in the United States Navy or Marine Corps.

JAG Pilot Episodes

 * Before being launched as its own series, NCIS was featured as a 2 part episode in Season 8 of the Series JAG

Ice Queen

 * Ducky: Agent Blackadder reminds me of a young woman I autopsied once.
 * Gibbs: [looking at the body] When'd she die?
 * Ducky: Oh, gosh, in Hollywood. Let's see, it's got to be at least 20 years ago. She was an assistant film editor and the film editor's wife caught them in flagrante delicto--
 * Gibbs: [interrupting] This one, Ducky. When did this one die?

 * Gibbs: Cause of death?
 * Ducky: Well, it wasn't the arrow.

 * Tony: [referring to the Caf Pow] Is that number 2 or 3 today?
 * Abby: If you must know, it's number 4.
 * Tony: [holds up evidence bag] I brought you a present.
 * Abby: [smiles] And you wonder why you're still single.

 * Tony: You redecorating?
 * Abby: I thought I'd brighten the place up a bit.
 * Tony: You take these?
 * Abby: Yeah, that's a cross section of what a 12 gauge did to an L3 to L5.
 * Tony: Shotgun-shattered backbone?
 * Abby: Ya, the middle one there is a cross section of an icepick to a cerebellum.
 * Tony: [grimaces, then looks at another picture] Duodenum?
 * Abby: Yeah; I like to call it "Duodenum with a lye chaser". It's a sad end of a Drano drinker.
 * Tony: You need to get out more, Abby.
 * Abby: Is that an invite?

 * Abby: [lifting a fingerprint for the victim's car] Let your fingers do the talking. [to Tony] Why'd they tow it?
 * Tony: It was abandoned in a lot at Great Falls. Any of those finger prints big enough to be a man's?
 * Abby: Yep. Whoever was riding shotgun.
 * Tony: How fast can you run 'em?
 * Abby: Usually about 12 hours, but for dinner...
 * Tony: Get me an ID in two, and I'll make it Cafe Alantico.
 * Abby: Sweet.

 * [Gibbs and Rabb are in the interrogation room at NCIS headquarters]
 * Gibbs: You're more comfortable asking questions than you're answering them.
 * Rabb: Guess I'm not used to being a suspect.
 * Gibbs: Suspect? You said you were a suspect. Have I read you your Article 31 rights?
 * Rabb: No you haven't. Which means you're playing a very risky game, Gunny.
 * Gibbs: I'm not smart enough to play risky games with a lawyer of your caliber, Rabb.
 * Rabb: That's Commander Rabb. Or Commander. Or Sir, Gunny. I believe as a reservist, you're still technically in the Marine Corps.
 * Gibbs: [calmly] I'm an NCIS special agent. I don't have to salute you or "sir" you or give you any military courtesy. But you know that. So who's playing the games here?
 * [Silence]

 * [Vivian is reading Rabb his rights]
 * Rabb: I know my Article 31 rights, and I waive them.
 * [she continues reading them]
 * Rabb: I said I waive them.
 * Gibbs: She used to be FBI.

Meltdown

 * Rabb: There are enough holes in this case to raise reasonable doubt.
 * Lt. Cmdr. Coleman: There is also enough evidence to tie you to the murders and a string of witnesses. Your colleagues will testify to angry words between you and Lieutenant Singer right up to the time of her death.
 * Rabb: Well, it could be worse, I guess.
 * Coleman: How?
 * Rabb: I could not have an alibi.
 * Coleman: [in annoyance] You have an alibi?
 * Rabb: No.

 * [Ducky is telling his findings in court]
 * Major McBurney: What else did you discover?
 * Ducky: On her left buttock, I found a tattoo of a stalking leopard. Majestic. Brilliant. I've only seen one other like it: on a tango dancer in Buenos Aires who died of dehydration. I was on sabbatical at the ti--
 * McBurney: [interrupts] Doctor, I was asking about Lieutenant Singer.
 * Ducky: She wasn't in Buenos Aires...

 * Coleman: Doctor isn't it possible that the LT's injuries were a result of an accidental fall?
 * Ducky: [very seriously] Well the railing is very high. It's quite unlikely. Unless the LT's unconscious body levitated and dropped over the side. I've heard--
 * Coleman: [cutting him off] Thank you Doctor.

 * [after finding Commander Rabb's name on the hat]
 * Abby: If the hat does fit, you can't acquit.
 * [both lawyers give Abby a funny look]
 * Abby: Oh, come on; one of you would have said it if you had thought of it first.

 * Vivian: I'm sorry, I almost blew it.
 * Gibbs: [disapprovingly] Almost?
 * Tony: I still like you.

Seasons

 * Season 1
 * Season 2
 * Season 3
 * Season 4
 * Season 5
 * Season 6
 * Season 7
 * Season 8
 * Season 9
 * Season 10
 * Season 11
 * Season 12
 * Season 13
 * Season 14
 * Season 15
 * Season 16
 * Season 17
 * Season 18
 * Season 19
 * Season 20
 * Season 21

Cast and characters

 * Mark Harmon as
 * as Anthony "Tony" DiNozzo (2003–16)
 * Sean Murray as
 * as Abigail "Abby" Sciuto (2003–18)
 * as (2005–13)
 * as Caitlin "Kate" Todd (2003–05)
 * as Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard
 * as the late Jenny Shepard, former Director of NCIS (2005–08)
 * as current Director of NCIS Leon Vance (2008–present)
 * as Jimmy Palmer
 * as Eleanor "Ellie" Bishop (2013–present)

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Talk:Martha Plimpton

Someone decided to add "(movie)" before the word role to assert that when Plimpton said "role" in her quote she was referrnig to movie roles. I don't think this is the case, considering her considerable backgrounds in film, television *AND* stage, and so I have removed it. 141.156.44.219 05:12, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Removed link to official site since domain expired. Pegasos2 11:00, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

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 * Me actor; them fashion. No compute.

 * During my teen years, for Halloween, I went as a registered voter.

 * I'd just like to see a role for women where someone who isn't traditionally attractive is not portraying the best friend. You know, the character that only speaks in questions. "Gee, are you gonna go out with him? Do you think I look fat?" I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there.
 * (From her interview in the documentary film "Searching for Debra Winger")

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Barbara Kruger

Barbara Kruger (born 26 January, 1945) is an American conceptual artist.

Quotes

 * When I hear the word Culture I take out my checkbook
 * Words on an untitled artwork (1985)
 * Taken directly from Jean-Luc Godard's 1963 film Le Mépris.

 * A takeoff on the quote "Whenever I hear the word 'Culture,' I reach for my revolver," from Hans Johst, Schlageter (1933), act I, scene I (actual quote: Wenn ich Kultur höre … entsichere ich meinen Browning! [Whenever I hear of culture... I release the safety-catch of my Browning!])
 * Paraphrased from The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey, '"When I heard the word 'culture,'" said Dr. Sarvis "I reach for my checkbook."' pg. 109

 * If you can’t feel it, it must be real.
 * Love For Sale – The Words and Pictures of Barbara Kruger, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, Australia, 17th October – 24th November 1996

 * Memory is your image of perfection.
 * Love For Sale – The Words and Pictures of Barbara Kruger, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, Australia, 17th October – 24th November 1996

 * Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me — the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct our days and nights.
 * In: Art in America, Vol. 85, Nr. 10-12 (1997), p. 96

 * I have no complaints, except for the world.
 * Lecture, San Francisco Art Institute (2005-02-01)

 * What a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers.
 * An email to a supreme employee.

 * I really think that my work has been concerned with a scrutiny of how we are to one another. How we love one another, adore one another, detest one another, damage one another, how we caress one another on both an intimate and global scale. The history of the past thousand years is fraught with power and its abuses.
 * Interview (2021)

 * I’m just trying, like most art or music or movies, to create a commentary—not literal—of how it feels to live another day, to watch the world turn itself inside out or try to turn us inside out.
 * Interview (2021)

 * I don’t believe that any work, whether it’s a piece of visual art or a novel or a building, is as brilliant and major and extraordinary or as damaged and pathetic and minor as it’s thought to be.
 * Interview (2021)

Interview (2013)

 * I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism—objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.

 * I remember going into galleries and seeing this thing called conceptual art, and I understand people’s marginalization from what the art subculture is because if you haven’t crashed the codes, and if you don’t know what it is, you feel it’s a conspiracy against your unintelligence. You feel it’s fraud. I understand that. Now that I have crashed the code, I understand and support all this work. But I know how, in many ways, it’s a closed language. My work, not so much so, and it’s not by coincidence, because I just feel I relate to that reader who doesn’t know the secret code word.

 * the whole decade-izing thing doesn’t work for me. To me, the ’80s began in 1975 and ended in 1984—’84 or ’85 is when the market changed, when things really heated up. For me, decades are weird. Artists always are a reflection of the times they have come up in. And I think that, for us, there was a real historical change, and it was the first time that women had entered the marketplace, that their works had not been marginalized.

 * I never say I do political art. Nor do I do feminist art. I’m a woman who’s a feminist, who makes art. But I think what work becomes visible and what work remains absent is always a result of historical circumstance, you know—hard work, to some degree, and social relations.

 * Most artists will never make money off their work, but that spark, that need to create commentary, to visualize, textualize, and musicalize your experience of the world will continue whether it’s a hot commodity or not. You see that places where that need is shut down, we see oppressiveness and subjugation. That need to create commentary is huge. Most of that commentary will not make a big flip profit for some guy buying a condo on the next block. You have to go in knowing that.

 * (Where is “Your Body Is a Battleground” not an issue?) BK: I’ve not been to that place yet.

Interview (2017)

 * sports is a way that men can be allowed to have physical contact that is disallowed in a homophobic culture—not only in the playing of the game but also in the viewing of the game. Sports promote a kind of romance or a group understanding and intimacy about the notion of teams, about men being together and men’s bodies being together. It’s also true of the military, and it’s true of cultures in certain countries that disallow difference and are homophobic and at the same time are engaged in a war for a world without women.

 * of course I’m a feminist, but I speak about feminism as a plural. There are feminisms, and those feminisms are acted out in terms of site specificity: context, race, class, gender, location. They also connect with a larger term, intersectionality, which is commonly used now but which I’ve always understood organically. There is always a connection between issues of race and gender and class. They don’t ever exist separately, and people who feel that they live them separately are really not understanding the multiple forces that have impacts on their identity and their lives. You just can’t talk about sexuality and gender without engaging the complicated issues of race, and you can’t talk about race without engaging complicated, under-recognized issues of class. And it’s wrong to trivialize any one of those things at the price of the other.

 * The failure of so-called progressive culture or the left is that people were closed within a bubble. And now it is promoted even more in what are called silos—in the right, the left, the middle, by our online identities, by our bookmarks, by where we go...

 * art is the creation of commentary. I think that art is the ability to textualize or visualize or musicalize one’s experience of the world—not on a diaristic, literal level but in a way that creates a commentary about what it feels to live another day. The goal for every human being, including myself, is to live an examined life—to really think about what makes us who we are in the world and how culture constructs and contains us. That’s what I’m interested in.

 * I was never a fan of street photography. I always thought that it was a brutal search on the streets for the most divine grotesquery or the most Other. I was always suspicious of that. A lot of photographers don’t understand the brutality of that practice. There are some photographers who picture people quite brilliantly; Catherine Opie...is an example. But I think photojournalists are incredibly naïve, and many of them think they have halos over their heads, that they are witnessing this brutality but somehow are apart from it.

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William Poole

William Poole (July 1821 – March 8, 1855), also known as Bill the Butcher, was a member of the New York City gang the Bowery Boys, a bare-knuckle boxer, and a leader of the Know Nothing political movement.

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 * I think I am a goner. If I die, I die a true American; and what grieves me most is, thinking that I've been murdered by a set of Irish - by Morrissey in particular.
 * On his deathbed (March 08, 1855).

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Talk:Helen Keller

Older comments
Is there some reason I'm missing as to why there are so many unrelated images on this page? --137.222.59.227 14:24, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

^^I don't know but agree that they are unrelated to the quotes. There is also no need for the quotes to be repeated below them. I'll remove them. -Andrew Cook 02 Dec '07
 * I agree. Let's restrict the number of pictures.--Cato 18:06, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

 * I, of course, do not agree, but I only had a few moments earlier to revert their removal, and only have a few moments now, on a different computer, at a different place, to make a brief comment on the matter. I will try to address the issue more later today, but expect to be busy with several non-computer tasks for at least a few hours, and have a few other tasks here on the project which I will probably address first, before I am likely to get back to this one. ~ Kalki 18:51, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

I agree

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Wikiquote no longer allows unsourced quotations, and they are in process of being removed from our pages (see Wikiquote:Limits on quotations); but if you can provide a reliable and precise source for any quote on this list please move it to Helen Keller. --Antiquary 10:11, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Imagine yourself as a girl totally enclosed in your own world. Every time you wake up, you could not hear the birds chirping. Everytime you wake up, you could not see the bright sunlight in your face. And yet, you strive to make a difference, you try to learn as much as you could so you could help others just like you.

 * Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do.

 * In dreams we catch glimpses of a life larger than our own.
 * The World I Live in; end of chapter XIV.

 * Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought! Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder! Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings! Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction!

 * Sure, the world is full of trouble. But, as long as we have people undoing trouble, we have a pretty good world.

 * The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
 * the source is here: American Foundation for the Blind.
 * The correct quote is: the best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart. --212.143.71.59 12:35, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

 * Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.

 * Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

 * Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Hundreds of others
There are hundreds more on likesuccess.com. It will take a while to sort through everything. --IIBewegung (talk) 23:42, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

About adding more quotes from We Bereaved
I have just added a quote from We Bereaved. I'd like more quotes from the book here on Wikiquote, but I'm not sure if it is good to add much more quotes. But as the book is especially written for those who have lost their loved ones, which was not done in her other books, I also think her words from the book is helpful for people who are grieving for their loss. Is it better to add an individual section if I will add some more quotes or not to add any more to keep the number of quotes same as it is? Let me know your opinions. Thank you! Mulief (talk) 14:43, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

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Monsters, Inc.

Monsters, Inc. is a 2001 computer animated feature film in which, in order to power the city, monsters have to scare children so that they scream. However, the children are toxic to the monsters, and after a child gets through, two monsters realize things may not be what they think.
 * Directed by Pete Docter. Written by Andrew Stanton, and Daniel Gerson, based on a story by Pete Docter, Jill Culton, Jeff Pidgeon, and Ralph Eggleston

Monsters, Inc.: We Scare Because We Care. (taglines)

Dialogue

 * Mike: I'm telling you, big daddy, you're gonna be seeing this face on TV a lot more often.
 * Sulley: Yeah, like on "Monstropolis' Most Wanted"?
 * Mike: Ha, ha, ha. You've been jealous of my good looks since the fourth grade, pal.

 * [Sulley has insisted on walking to work]
 * Mike: You wanna know why I bought the car, Sulley?
 * Sulley: Not really.
 * Mike: To drive it! You know, like on the street, with the honk-honk and the vroom-vroom, and the no walking involved?
 * Sulley: Wa, wa, wa, wa. Will you give it a rest, butterball? C'mon, you could use the exercise.
 * Mike: I could use the exercise? Look at you! You have your own climate.

 * Celia: So, uh... are we going anywhere special tonight?
 * Mike: I just got us into a little place called, um...Harryhausen's.
 * Celia: Harryhausen's?! But it's impossible to get a reservation there.
 * Mike: Not for Googlie Bear. I will see you at quitting time, and not a minute later.
 * Celia: Okay, sweetheart.
 * Mike: Think romantical thoughts. [singing] You and me, me and you, both of us togetheeeeeeer.

 * Sulley: Yeah, I got, uh, smelly garbage or old dumpster.
 * Mike: You got, uh, low tide?
 * Sulley: No.
 * Mike: How about wet dog?
 * Sulley: Yep. Stink it up.

 * Mike: [to Sulley] Y'know, sometimes I feel so romantic, I think I should just marry myself!
 * Sulley: Give me a break, Mike...
 * Mike: What a night of romance I've got ahead of me! Tonight is about me and Celia! Hoo-hoo, the loveboat is about to set sail! I'm telling ya, pal, I see her face and it makes my heart go-- [finds himself face-to-face with Roz] YIKES!!!
 * Roz: [sternly] Hello, Wazowski. Fun-filled evening planned for tonight?
 * Mike: Well, as a matter of fact--
 * Roz: And I'm sure you filed your paperwork correctly...for once! [silence] Your stunned silence is very reassuring. [leaves]
 * Mike: Oh no, my scare reports! I left them on my desk! If I'm not at the restaurant in five minutes, they're gonna give our table away, what am I gonna tell--?! [Celia comes up to Mike] Schmoopsie-Pooh.
 * Celia: Hey Googly-Bear, wanna get going?
 * Mike: Do I ever? It's just that... Uh...
 * Celia: What?
 * Mike: There's a small--
 * Celia: I don't understand.
 * Sulley: It's just I forgot about some paperwork I was supposed to file. Mike was reminding me; thanks, buddy.
 * Mike: I was? I mean, I was! Yeah, I was.
 * Celia: Okay, let's go then.
 * Mike: We're going! [whispering to Sulley] On my desk, Sulley. The pink copies go to accounting, the fuchsia ones go to purchasing, and the goldenrod ones go to Roz. [Celia pulls him away; he comes back] Leave the puce! [gets pulled away again]
 * [Later]
 * Sulley: [to himself] So the pink copies go to purchasing, and the fuchsia ones go to Roz. No, the fuchsia ones go to purchasing and the goldenrod ones go to Roz. Man, I have no idea what puce is... [looks at some reddish-brown files] Oh, that's puce.

 * Celia: Oh, Michael, I've had a lot of birthdays - well, not a lot of birthdays, but this is the best birthday ever. What are you looking at?
 * Mike: I was just thinking about the first time I laid eye on you, how pretty you looked.
 * Celia: Stop it.
 * Mike: Your hair was shorter then.
 * Celia: Mm-hmm. I'm thinking about getting it cut. [the snakes in her hair look worried]
 * Mike: No-no, I like it this length. [the snakes sigh in relief] I like everything about you. Just the other day someone asked me who I thought the most beautiful monster was in all of Monstropolis. You know what I said?
 * Celia: What did you say?
 * Mike: I said-- [sees Sulley trying to get his attention] Sulley?
 * Celia: Sulley?!

 * Randall: Wazowski! Where's the kid, you little one-eyed crettin?!
 * Mike: Okay. First of all, it's cretin. If you're gonna threaten me, do it properly. Second of all, you're nuts if you think kidnapping me is gonna help you cheat your way to the top!
 * Randall: [chuckles nastily] You still think this is about that stupid scare record?
 * Mike: Well... I did. Right up until you... chuckled like that... and now I'm thinking I should just get out of here.

 * [Sulley enters the scare simulator room with Mike and Boo in her disguise, willing to ask for help which can send Boo home, forgetting Waternoose had been expecting him]
 * Sulley: Mr. Waternoose?
 * Waternoose: James! Perfect timing.
 * Sulley: No, no, no, sir, you don't understand.
 * Waternoose: Okay, gentlemen. It's time for you to see how scaring really works.
 * [Mike picks up Boo and walks away]
 * Sulley: But, sir...
 * [The lights go out, as if it's nighttime, and the Simulator Child goes to sleep]
 * Boo: [excited to watch Sulley] Kitty!
 * Mike: No, Boo. No!
 * Waternoose: Now, give us a big loud roar.
 * Sulley: Mr. Waternoose, there's no time for this...
 * Waternoose: Come on! Come on! What are you waiting for? Roar!
 * Sulley: But sir...
 * Waternoose: ROAR!
 * [Sulley without choice, lunges out at the simulation kid and lets out a load roar, causing it to scream. Little did he know that Boo was standing close by, watching in horror]
 * Waternoose: [applauds] Well done. Well done, James.
 * Sulley: Boo?
 * Waternoose: All right, gentlemen. I hope you've all learnt a valuable lesson...
 * [Sulley notices Boo run off crying, terrified from his roar]
 * Sulley: Boo. Boo. Boo, it's me.
 * Waternoose: [gasps] The child.
 * Mike: Sir, she isn't toxic.

 * Sulley: [is fighting the invisible Randall when he is hit with a snowball] Mike?
 * Mike: Look, it's not that I don't care about the kid.
 * Sulley: Mike, you don't understand.
 * Mike: Yes, I do. I was just mad, that's all. I needed some time to think, but you shouldn't have left me out there.
 * Sulley: I'm being attacked!
 * Mike: No, I'm not attacking you. I'm trying to be honest, just hear me out. You and I are a team. Nothing is more important than our friendship.
 * [Boo approaches Mike, frightened]
 * Sulley: I-I know, kid. He's too sensitive.
 * Mike: [Sulley is being strangled] Come on, pal. If you start crying, I'm gonna cry, and I'll never get through this. I'm sorry I wasn't there for you, but I am now. Hey, Sulley, I am baring my soul here. The least you can do is pay attention!
 * [he throws a snowball; it hits Randall, making him visible enough for Sulley to knock him out]
 * Mike: Hey, look at that, it's Randall. It's... Oh.
 * Sulley: [picking up Mike and Boo] Come on!
 * Waternoose: [to Randall] Get up! There can't be any witnesses!
 * Randall: There won't be.

 * [Waternoose catches Sulley trying to defend Boo]
 * Waternoose: This has gone far enough, James.
 * Sulley: She's home now! Just leave her alone!
 * Waternoose: I can't do that. She's seen too much. You both have.
 * Sulley: It doesn't have to be this way!
 * Waternoose: I have no choice! Times have changed. Scaring isn't enough anymore!
 * Sulley: But kidnapping children?!
 * Waternoose: I'll kidnap 1,000 children before I let this company die! And I'll silence anyone who gets in my way! [knocks Sulley aside]
 * Sulley: No!
 * [Waternoose lunges at the bed, only to find the simulator robot]
 * Voice: Simulation terminated. Simulation terminated.
 * Waternoose: [confused] Huh? But... What?
 * [the lights come on and it's revealed that Boo's room is really the simulation room; Mike and several CDA agents are standing behind the console]
 * Mike: Well, I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I spotted several big mistakes. You know what? Let's watch my favorite part again, shall we? [replays the tape of Waternoose over and over]
 * Boo: Baby.
 * Sulley: Shh, shh, shh, shh!
 * Boo: Shh!
 * CDA Agent # 1: I'll take him.
 * CDA Agent # 2: All right, sir. Come with us.
 * Waternoose: What are you doing?! Take your hands off of me! You can't arrest me! I hope you're happy, Sullivan! You've destroyed this company! Monsters, Incorporated is dead! Where will everyone get their scream now?! The energy crisis will only get worse because of you!
 * CDA Agent: Stay where you are. #1 wants to talk to you. Attention!
 * [Roz enters the scene]
 * Roz: Hello, boys!
 * Sulley and Mike: Roz?
 * Roz: Two and a half years of undercover work were almost wasted when you intercepted that child, Mr. Sullivan. Of course, without your help, I never would've known that this went all the way up to Waternoose.

Taglines

 * Monsters, Inc.: We Scare Because We Care

 * You Won't Believe Your Eye.

 * We Think They Are Scary, But Really We Scare Them!

 * Since the very first bedtime, all around the world, children have known that once their mothers and fathers tuck them in, and shut off the light, that there are MONSTERS hiding in their closets, waiting to emerge! What they don't know is: it's nothing personal. It's just their job.

Cast

 * John Goodman — James P. Sullivan
 * Billy Crystal — Mike Wazowski
 * Mary Gibbs — Boo
 * Steve Buscemi — Randall Boggs
 * James Coburn — Henry Waternoose the Third
 * Jennifer Tilly — Celia Mae
 * Bob Peterson — Roz
 * John Ratzenberger — Yeti
 * Frank Oz — Jeffrey Fungus
 * Daniel Gerson — Needleman and Smitty
 * Steven Robert Susskind — Jerry the Floor Manager
 * Bonnie Hunt — Ms. Flint
 * Jeff Pidgeon — Thaddeus "Phlegm" Bile
 * Sam Black — George Sanderson

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Lucian

Lucian of Samosata (c. 125 – c. 190) was a satirist and philosopher, born at Samosata in the Syrian province of the Roman Empire (now in Turkey), but in later life resident in Athens. His works are written in the Attic dialect of Greek.

 * See also Gymnopaedia.

Quotes

 * Quotations are cited from H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler (trans.), The Works of Lucian of Samosata (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905).

 * The effort only shifted me from the frying-pan into the fire.
 * "Menippus, a Necromantic Experiment", sect. 4; vol. 1, p. 158.

 * The truth is hidden from us. Even if a mere piece of luck brings us straight to it, we shall have no grounded conviction of our success; there are so many similar objects, all claiming to be the real thing.
 * "Hermotimus, or the Rival Philosophies", sect. 49; vol. 2, p. 69.

 * I now make the only true statement you are to expect – that I am a liar. This confession is, I consider, a full defence against all imputations.  My subject is, then, what I have neither seen, experienced, nor been told, what neither exists nor could conceivably do so.  I humbly solicit my readers' incredulity.
 * "The True History", sect. 4; vol. 2, p. 137.

 * First, then, I went to the Indians, the mightiest nation upon earth. I had little trouble in persuading them to descend from their elephants and follow me. The Brahmins, who dwell between Oxydracae and the country of the Nechrei, are mine to a man: they live according to my laws, and are respected by all their neighbours; and the manner of their death is truly wonderful.
 * The Runaways

How to Write History

 * Quotations are cited from Thomas Francklin, D.D. (trans.), Trips to the Moon (vol. LXXI of Cassell's National Library; a reprint of Thomas Francklin, The Works of Lucian from the Greek, 2 vols., T. Cadell, 1780) unless otherwise stated.

 * Διττοῦ δὲ ὄντος τοῦ τῆς συμβουλῆς ἔργου, τὰ μὲν γὰρ αἱρεῖσθαι, τὰ δὲ φεύγειν διδάσκει...
 * Criticism is twofold: that which teaches us what we are to choose, and that which teaches us what to avoid.

 * These men seem not to know that poetry has its particular rules and precepts; and that history is governed by others directly opposite.

 * He is unpardonable, therefore, who cannot distinguish one from the other; but lays on history the paint of poetry, its flattery, fable, and hyperbole: it is just as ridiculous as it would be to clothe one of our robust wrestlers, who is as hard as an oak, in fine purple, or some such meretricious garb, and put paint on his cheeks; how would such ornaments debase and degrade him!

 * History, when she adds pleasure to utility, may attract more admirers; though as long as she is possessed of that greatest of perfections, truth, she need not be anxious concerning beauty.

 * In history, nothing fabulous can be agreeable.

 * Everything has a beauty peculiar to itself; but if you put one instead of another, the most beautiful becomes ugly, because it is not in its proper place.

 * If the brave should fly, he who pursues must be braver.

 * I say, therefore, that he who would write history well must be possessed of these two principal qualifications, a fine understanding and a good style: one is the gift of nature, and cannot be taught; the other may be acquired by frequent exercise, perpetual labour and an emulation of the ancients.

 * The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened.
 * Sect. 39; vol. 2, p. 128; H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler (trans.) The Works of Lucian of Samosata.

 * For history, I say again, has this and this only for its own: if a man will start upon it, he must sacrifice to no God but Truth; he must neglect all else; his sole rule and unerring guide is this – to think not of those who are listening to him now, but of the yet unborn who shall seek his converse.
 * Sect. 39; vol. 2, pp. 128-9; H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler (trans.) The Works of Lucian of Samosata.

 * The good historian, then, must be thus described: he must be fearless, uncorrupted, free, the friend of truth and of liberty; one who, to use the words of the comic poet, calls a fig a fig, and a skiff a skiff, neither giving nor withholding from any, from favour or from enmity, not influenced by pity, by shame, or by remorse; a just judge, so far benevolent to all as never to give more than is due to any in his work; a stranger to all, of no country, bound only by his own laws, acknowledging no sovereign, never considering what this or that man may say of him, but relating faithfully everything as it happened.

 * The body of the history is only a long narrative, and as such it must go on with a soft and even motion, alike in every part, so that nothing should stand too forward, or retreat too far behind.

Other

 * Ignorance is a dreadful thing and has caused no end of damage to the human race.
 * Cited in Tim Flannery, Atmosphere of Hope. Solutions to the Climate Crisis, Penguin Books, 2015, page 81 ISBN 9780141981048.

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Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955) is the inventor of the World Wide Web and director of the World Wide Web Consortium, which oversees its continued development.

Quotes

 * We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities. The aim would be to allow a place to be found for any information or reference which one felt was important, and a way of finding it afterwards. The result should be sufficiently attractive to use that it the information contained would grow past a critical threshold, so that the usefulness the scheme would in turn encourage its increased use. The passing of this threshold accelerated by allowing large existing databases to be linked together and with new ones.
 * "Information Management: A Proposal" (March 1989), the original proprosal for the software project at CERN that became the World Wide Web.

 * This project is experimental and of course comes without any warranty whatsoever. However, it could start a revolution in information access.
 * "WorldWideWeb wide-area hypertext app available" (19 August 1991), the announcement of the first WWW hypertext browser on the Usenet newsgroup comp.sys.next.announce.

 * An [hypertext] encyclopaedia will be an overall attempt by the knowledgeable, the learned societies or anyone else, to represent the state-of-the-art in their field. An encyclopaedia will be a living document, as up to date as it can be, instantly accessible at any time. It will contain carefully authored explanations and summaries of the subject, as well as computer-generated indexes of literature. A reference to a paper from the encyclopaedia conveys authority and acceptance by academic society. A measure of a paper’s standing may be conveyed by the number of links it is away from an encyclopaedia.
 * "Electronic publishing and visions of hypertext", Physics World, June 1992.

 * I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the TCP and DNS ideas and — ta-da!— the World Wide Web.
 * Answers for Young People

We need to look at the whole society and think, "Are we actually thinking about what we're doing as we go forward, and are we preserving the really important values that we have in society? Are we keeping it democratic, and open, and so on?"
 * The fact that we're all connected, the fact that we've got this information space — does change the parameters. It changes the way people live and work. It changes things for good and for bad. But I think, in general, it's clear that most bad things come from misunderstanding, and communication is generally the way to resolve misunderstandings — and the Web's a form of communications — so it generally should be good. But I think, also, we have to watch whether we preserve the stability of the world — like we don't want to watch this phenomenon like the stock market becoming unstable when it became computerized, for example.
 * developerWorks Interviews: Tim Berners-Lee (podcast/audio plus transcript)

 * I don't believe in the sort of eureka moment idea. I think it's a myth.  I'm very suspicious that actually Archimedes had been thinking about that problem for a long time. And it wasn't that suddenly it came to him.
 * developerWorks Interviews: Tim Berners-Lee (podcast/audio plus transcript)

 * Web 1.0 was all about connecting people. It was an interactive space, and I think Web 2.0 is of course a piece of jargon, nobody even knows what it means. If Web 2.0 for you is blogs and wikis, then that is people to people.  But that was what the Web was supposed to be all along.
 * developerWorks Interviews: Tim Berners-Lee (podcast/audio plus transcript)

 * Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
 * Interview by Kris Herbst for Internet World (June 1994)

 * Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy.
 * Interview by Kris Herbst for Internet World (June 1994)

 * Almost everything which you needed to know in your daily life was written down somewhere. And at the time, in the 1980s, it was almost certainly written down on a computer somewhere. It was very frustrating that people's effort in typing it in was not being used when, in fact, if it could only be tied together and made accessible, everything would be so much easier for everybody.
 * [[Tim Berners-Lee], "The creator of the World Wide Web, TIM BERNERS-LEE" "Fresh Air", NPR, (February 7, 1996); as quoted by Julian Ring “30 years ago, one decision altered the course of our connected world”, NPR, (April 30, 2023)

 * The web setting out as something which was universal, something which anybody could use, I felt was very important. It's no good having something which will run on any platform if, in fact, there is a proprietary hold on it.
 * "The creator of the World Wide Web, TIM BERNERS-LEE" "Fresh Air", NPR, (February 7, 1996); as quoted by Julian Ring “30 years ago, one decision altered the course of our connected world”, NPR, (April 30, 2023)

 * Anyone who slaps a ‘this page is best viewed with Browser X’ label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.
 * Technology Review (July 1996)

 * Cool URIs don't change
 * Title of 1998 document

 * It is the duty of a Webmaster to allocate URIs which you will be able to stand by in 2 years, in 20 years, in 200 years.
 * Cool URIs don't change

 * I don't mind there being biased information out there. The important thing is that you should know, when you're on the web, whether you're looking at biased information or not.
 * “The creator of the Web, TIM BERNERS-LEE” “Fresh Air”, NPR, (Sep 16, 1999)

 * The question, when it's posed like that, it implies that you really only measure people's value by their net worth. People are what they've done, what they say, what they stand for, rather than what they happen to have in the bank.
 * The Diane Rehm Show, “Tim Berners-Lee “Weaving the Web” (Harper San Francisco)”, (Oct 14, 1999)

 * When you go out there, the webpages you see are written by people. You're looking at a certain sub-set of the churning mass of humanity out there. So it's not that the web itself is an animal, but it's that society is this really exciting, decentralized thing, and the web, fortunately, is more or less able to echo it.
 * “Talk of the Nation”, (September 1, 2002) as quoted by Julian Ring “30 years ago, one decision altered the course of our connected world”, NPR, April 30, 2023

 * Legend has it that every new technology is first used for something related to sex or pornography. That seems to be the way of humankind.
 * "The Guardian profile: Tim Berners-Lee"(12 August 2005)

Let's see whether the United States is capable as acting according to its important values, or whether it is, as so many people are saying, run by the misguided short-term interested of large corporations. I hope that Congress can protect net neutrality, so I can continue to innovate in the internet space. I want to see the explosion of innovations happening out there on the Web, so diverse and so exciting, continue unabated.
 * When I invented the web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going end in the USA. … Democracy depends on freedom of speech. Freedom of connection, with any application, to any party, is the fundamental social basis of the Internet, and, now, the society based on it.
 * Berners-Lee T., Net Neutrality: This is Serious (June 2006)

 * The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.
 * https://www.w3.org/standards/webdesign/accessibility

 * What's very important from my point of view is that there is one web … Anyone that tries to chop it into two will find that their piece looks very boring.
 * As quoted in "US backing for two-tier internet" in BBC News (7 September 2007)

 * The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people.
 * Tim Berners-Lee Speech before Knight Foundation, (14 September 2008)

 * This is for everyone
 * Tweeted during his participation in the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony

 * We’ve lost a fighter. We’ve lost somebody who put huge energy into righting wrongs. There are people around the world who take it on themselves to just try to fix the world but very few of them do it 24/7 like Aaron. Very few of them are as dedicated. So of the people who are fighting for right, and what he was doing up to the end was fighting for right, we have lost one of our own. … We’ve lost a great person.
 * Eulogizing Aaron Swartz in "Remember Aaron Swartz" (18 January 2013)

 * Aaron is dead. Wanderers in this crazy world, we have lost a mentor, a wise elder. Hackers for right, we are one down, we have lost one of our own. Nurtures, careers, listeners, feeders, parents all, we have lost a child. Let us all weep.
 * Eulogizing Aaron Swartz in W3C Mailing list (12 Jan 2013)

 * When somebody has learned how to program a computer … You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine.
 * From An Insight, An Idea with Tim Berners-Lee at 27:27 (25 January 2013)

 * This snoopers charter has no place in a modern democracy - it undermines our fundamental rights online. The bulk collection of everyone's internet browsing data is disproportionate, creates a security nightmare for the ISPs who must store the data - and rides roughshod over our right to privacy. Meanwhile, the bulk hacking powers in the Bill risk making the internet less safe for everyone
 * 'Snoopers law creates security nightmare' (29th November 2016)

Weaving the Web (1999)

 * Online excerpts of Weaving The Web : The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web

 * The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect — to help people work together — and not as a technical toy. The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies. We develop trust across the miles and distrust around the corner.

 * At CERN there was a credo meant to avoid unnecessary labors, it said that when acquiring new technology: Buy, Don't Build. There were several commercial hypertext editors and I thought we could just add some internet code, so that the hypertext documents could then be sent over the internet. I thought the companies engaged in the then fringe field of hypertext would immediately grasp the possibilities of the web. Unfortunately, their reaction was quite the opposite... it seemed that explaining the vision of the web was exceedingly difficult without a web browser in hand, people had to be able to grasp the web in full, which meant imagining a whole world populated with websites and browsers. It was a lot to ask. Despite the buy don't build credo I came to the conclusion that I was going to have to create the web on my own.

 * In an extreme view, the world can be seen as only connections, nothing else. We think of a dictionary as the repository of meaning, but it defines words only in terms of other words. I liked the idea that a piece of information is really defined only by what it's related to, and how it's related. There really is little else to meaning. The structure is everything. There are billions of neurons in our brains, but what are neurons? Just cells. The brain has no knowledge until connections are made between neurons. All that we know, all that we are, comes from the way our neurons are connected.

 * The trick... is to make sure that each limited mechanical part of the Web, each application, is within itself composed of simple parts that will never get too powerful.

Quotes about Berners-Lee

 * He is a great visionary, but not actually always that good at explaining it … He is very technical, and always happiest when talking to other techies. All he really wants to do is write code, but now he has to go and meet world leaders and business people. I don't think he realised what they were doing at CERN would change the world this much. I think this is as big, if not bigger, than the printing press.
 * Wendy Hall, as quoted in "The Guardian profile: Tim Berners-Lee"(12 August 2005)

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