Kotabeaner Quotes

#1. Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence ... the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake.

George Washington

#2. We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge.

Grace Hopper

#3. I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.

Jack Dorsey

#4. Fifty years and people are still talking about who did it.

Elizabeth Horton-Newton

#5. You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

Charlton Heston

#6. I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.

Karl Lagerfeld

#7. Her days come and go like birds, her dreams like days.

Janette Turner Hospital

#8. A rationalist is simply someone for whom it is more important to learn than to be proved right; someone who is willing to learn from others - not by simply taking over another's opinions, but by gladly allowing others to criticize his ideas and by gladly criticizing the ideas of others

Karl Popper

#9. Where, except in the present, can the eternal be met?

C.S. Lewis

#10. Which is not to discount everything I've done in my past; everything I have learned tremendously from.

Rachel True

#11. The author says that one of the difficulties of modern parenting is the uncertainty of what parents are preparing children for. In traditional societies this was clear, as parents prepared children for a society and for roles much like their own. She writes, There is no folk wisdom.

Jennifer Senior