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4,407 quotes curated by Chris Lavergne:

“Not every good job in the economy of today and tomorrow requires a four-year college degree.”
— Hillary Clinton, Read Hillary Clinton's Speech Attacking Donald Trump's Economic Policies
Tagged: Good Jobs, Election 2016, Economic Polices of Election 2016
“The old model of work where you could expect to hold a steady job with good benefits for an entire career is long gone. People in their 20s and 30s have come of age in an economy that’s totally different. And a lot of young parents are discovering just how tough that is on families. Many people now have wildly unpredictable schedules or they cobble together part-time work, or they try to go independent. Now, flexibility can be good, but you shouldn’t have to worry that your family could lose your health care or retirement savings just because you change jobs or start a small business.”
— Hillary Clinton, Read Hillary Clinton's Speech Attacking Donald Trump's Economic Policies
Tagged: The End of Small Business, Corporatism
“If Fox News had written about Peter Thiel being gay and his fund Clarium failing, would anyone be okay with its total destruction? (Even if that destruction was carried out by going after the network on other, unrelated stories that they got wrong, as Thiel did by financing multiple lawsuits against Gawker?) What if the Times wrote about those things? Would you be okay with the continued existence of those publications in the same situation. If so, why?”
— Elizabeth Spiers, Gawker’s Elizabeth Spiers: Against the Death Penalty for Media Companies
Tagged: Gawker, Gawker Media
“Nothing is inevitable in history, media, or culture — but literacy is the only thing that's even close. Bet for better video, bet for better speech, bet for better things we can't imagine — but if you bet against text, you will lose.”
— Tim Carmody, Facebook is wrong, text is deathless
Tagged: Media Formats Don't Die, Media Formats Layer On Each Other, Text, Language, Reading, Writing, The Technology of Thought And Expression
“The experience of the Soviet Union’s working class has shown that the ways and means to free itself from war lie in the breaking out of crisis, the transformation of imperialist war into civil war (Lenin), the merciless struggle under the banner: The principal enemy is to be found in our own country.”
— Michael Richardson, Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Surrealism Against the Current: Tracts and Declarations
Tagged: Soviet Union, The Longing for Peace, History
“Since every discovery changes nature, the destination of an object or a phenomenon constitutes a surrealist fact.”
— Michael Richardson, Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Surrealism Against the Current: Tracts and Declarations
Tagged: Truth as Movement, Discovering Change, Surrealism
“I have yet to see a serious act of violence that was not provoked by the experience of feeling shamed or humiliated, disrespected and ridiculed. As children, these men were shot, axed, scalded, beaten, strangled, tortured, drugged, starved, suffocated, set on fire, thrown out of the window, raped, or prostituted by mothers who were their pimps. For others, words alone shamed and rejected, insulted and humiliated, dishonored and disgraced, tore down their self-esteem, and murdered their soul. Their shaming occurred on a scale so extreme, so bizarre, and so frequent that one cannot fail to see that the men who occupy the extreme end of the continuum of violent behavior in adulthood occupied an equally extreme end of the continuum of violent child abuse earlier in life.”
— Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
Tagged: Violence, Shame, On Violence, Abuse
“In an era of chaos, he who imparts order triumphs. Facebook killed MySpace because it was organized, there were rules. People say they prefer Android to iOS, Windows to MacOS, but those are the vocal minority. Give people too much choice and they become overwhelmed.”
— Bob Lefsetz, The Power Hierarchy - Lefsetz Letter
Tagged: MySpace, Facebook, User Choice, Constraints
“When designing spatially, it helps to imagine an interface as a physical model, which can be manipulated, and travelled through. Rather than placing detached comps next to each other one-dimensionally, try thinking upper-dimensionally.”
— Pasquale D’Silva, Spatial Interfaces — Elepath Exports
Tagged: Design, Material Design
“Imagine how different the world would be if from the rooftops of our very own apartments, if from the crowd filled city streets, we yelled our love for one another rather than our hate. Always remember that human heart is approximately the size of two hands clasped together. There is no coincidence in that.”
— Bianca Sparacino, Imagine
Tagged: Be Nice