#mit

For example, one way of giving yourself a strong incentive to reach your goal is to commit to pay money to someone if you fail. Better yet, you can specify that you will have to pay a certain sum to a cause that you detest. ↗

— Peter Singer

#cause #certain #commit #detest #example

The hope of Internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the Internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information, or restrict Internet access to the ruling elite and turn your back on the 21st century, as North Korea has done. ↗

— Peter Singer

#accept #access #back #century #done

The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception. ↗

— Peter Singer

#anonymity #beyond #brought #deception #each

The Chinese have certain advantages. The fact that it's a single party government. But I do believe in the long run the fact that India is a functioning democracy committed to the rule of law. Our system is slow to move but I'm confident that once decisions are taken they are going to be far more durable. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

#believe #certain #chinese #committed #confident

Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#books #captivated #could #enjoyed #hmm

It was dog food. Beef livers with onions in a can. You open it up and it looks like vomit. ↗

— Tom Sizemore

#dog #dog food #food #like #looks

I have brought a PS2 on set with me before. But games can be really addicting, and that's dangerous. So I tend to keep it fairly limited on a certain level. ↗

— Christian Slater

#brought #certain #certain level #dangerous #fairly

Let's clean up our environment. Let's clean up our bodies, but most importantly, let's not permit our babies of the future to be polluted before they are even born. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

#before #bodies #born #clean #clean up

Frankly, I've got to admit that I'm not perfect and have made some mistakes as some of the colourful stories about me reveal. ↗

— Peter Slipper

#admit #frankly #got #i #made

I used to imagine what it would be like to do what Jim Brown was doing. I used to imagine what it would be like to be like a Tony Dorsett. I used to imagine what it would be like to be like a Walter Payton. I was imagining Emmitt Smith doing exactly what they were doing. ↗

— Emmitt Smith

#doing #emmitt #exactly #i #imagine