Beth Simone Noveck The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves. – Beth Simone Noveck Creating Quotes Distance Quotes Enabling Quotes Expectation Quotes Governing Quotes Technologies Quotes The aim of open government is to take advantage of the know-how and entrepreneurial spirit of those outside government institutions to work together with those inside government to solve problems. Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public participation is limited to voting.
John Battelle We all know the future is mobile, right? And the iPhone and iPad are Perfect Expressions of Beauty, Ideal Combinations of Form and Function. Except they’re Not. – John Battelle
KnowledgeNikola Tesla All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed. – Nikola Tesla
Pearl S Buck All things are possible until they are proved impossible – and even the impossible may only be so, as of now. – Pearl S Buck
Stana Katic I love Cillian Murphy’s character in ‘Peaky Blinders’ and Tom Hardy’s in ‘Taboo’ – theses are characters that, as audience members, we follow along with and root for. But our own morality is tested throughout that journey, because these characters ride a thin line between morality and amorality. – Stana Katic
Paul Merton In 1987, I was in Edinburgh doing my first one-man show. I took part in a kickabout with some fellow comedians and tripped over my trousers and heard this cracking sound in my leg. A couple of days later I went into a coma and was diagnosed with a pulmonary embolism. – Paul Merton
Kaia Gerber I’m inspired by people embracing their feminine power and just being who they truly are and not afraid to express themselves. – Kaia Gerber
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