#sour

Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#computer #computers #find #hook #just

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#become #even #friends #friendship #greatest

My own view would be to let Saddam bluster, let him rant and rave all he wants. As long as he behaves himself within his own borders, we should not be addressing any attack or resources against him. ↗

— Dick Armey

#against #any #attack #behaves #borders

Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#adapt #american #asked #country #customs

These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are common among the Indians of the Missouri. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#armed #arrows #bows #common #dressed

In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions. ↗

— Julian Assange

#around #assets #attacks #been #different

We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us. But we're presumably acting in such a way that people feel morally compelled to continue our mission, not to screw it up. ↗

— Julian Assange

#come #compelled #continue #dissidents #feel

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment. ↗

— David Attenborough

#fulfillment #great #natural #natural world #only

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living. ↗

— David Attenborough

#excitement #greatest #intellectual #interest #life

One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know. ↗

— Yann Arthus-Bertrand

#believe #change #depend #fifth #fish