“I can accept that he will have insights that none of the rest of us will have. Can you accept that he will make mistakes none of the rest of us will make? You won't be the one who pays the price.”— David Shore, Dr. Marcus Andrews, Hill Harper, imdb.com
“You don’t have to agree with someone to respect their right to say things you don’t agree with.”— Ricky Gervais, twitter.com
“Sometimes, those who think they are the most open minded can display the strongest bigotry against those who they think they are superior to. I'm not saying that's what is going on here, but I am just saying we should be wary of doing that. Wary of othering 'cos we feel 'smarter.'”— Yasmin Abdel-Magied, twitter.com
“The difficulty of speaking out in a small world means we must listen to those with the bravery to do it.”— Gwenda Bond, twitter.com
“The little things... There's nothing bigger, is there?”— Cameron Crowe, David Aames, Tom Cruise, amazon.com
“Culturally, I think we have operated as if we had the formula figured out, and it was all about optimizing, in its various constituent parts, the formula. Now it is about discovering the new formula.”— Satya Nadella, nytimes.com
“If a frog turns right and catches a fly, and then turns left and catches a fly, and then turns around backward and catches a fly, the purpose of the frog has to do not with turning left or right or backward but with catching flies. If a government proclaims its interest in protecting the environment…”— Donella H. Meadows, amazon.com
“You think that because you understand 'one' that you must therefore understand 'two' because one and one make two. But you forget that you must also understand 'and.'”— Sufi teaching story, amazon.com
“'Only an animal does useful things,' he said at last, after a long silence. 'An animal gets food, finds a place to sleep, tries to keep comfortable. But I wanted to do something that was not useful, not like an animal at all. Something only a human being would do.'”— Gerard d'Aboville , amazon.com
“We choose things that are against our own best interests because the freedom to make that choice is more important than those interests.”— Sam Sheridan, amazon.com
“Everyone typically thinks that when you're intimately close to someone, like your husband or your wife or your mom or your dad, that it opens you up so much to all these powerful feelings of connectedness and enables you to understand the other person with such incredible empathy. But I really think…”— Mark Leyner, REAL HUSBAND, amazon.com
“So the only thing we can do is to continue to demand that these services provide what we think we need, the 'we' being both individual and collective, and keep paying attention to the way they have structural problems in doing so. Whether that's algorithm or editorial acumen or yellow journalism, th…”— Tarleton Gillespie, niemanlab.org
“The funny thing about clickbait as an idea is it's basically shorthand for: People really wanted to read this. Writing a really juicy headline to get people to read it, whether you got the substance or not, is not new to BuzzFeed and Upworthy. Is that gaming the algorithm? Was the algorithm of the p…”— Tarleton Gillespie, niemanlab.org
“The normal experience of social software is failure. If you go into Yahoo groups and you map out the subscriptions, it is, unsurprisingly, a power law. There's a small number of highly populated groups, a moderate number of moderately populated groups, and this long, flat tail of failure. And the fa…”— Clay Shirky, shirky.com
“Nobody panics when things go according to plan. Even if the plan is horrifying.”— The Joker, amazon.com