#be

A poetess who had died young of cancer had said in one of her poems that for her, on sleepless nights, 'the night offers toads and black dogs and corpses of the drowned. ↗

— Yasunari Kawabata

#sleeping-beauty #beauty

It is up to us as lawmakers to provide the resources and streamlined processes that will enable our federal forest managers to become the best possible steward of our lands. ↗

— Greg Walden

#best #enable #federal #forest #lands

Removing substantial fuel loads from our forests helps prevent catastrophic fire and better protects species, watersheds and neighboring communities that call them home. ↗

— Greg Walden

#call #catastrophic #communities #fire #forests

We are still in the very beginnings of the Internet. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#internet #still #very

I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#always #because #big #broadband #disseminate

A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#bad #being #east #fed #goes

I still believe there is a need to open up search and it will come eventually. It is very important to challenge the current models. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#challenge #come #current #eventually #i

One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open; today, in the world I come from, the free software and open-source world, Microsoft is not generally viewed as open; they're viewed as proprietary. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#back #beat #come #day #free

People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#fun #interesting #interesting things #people #things

The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#core #people #really #screw #something