Mechanical Turk Quotes

#1. Perhaps the most striking of all the on-demand services is Amazon's Mechanical Turk, which allows customers to post any "human intelligence task", from flagging objectionable content on websites to composing text messages; workers on the site choose what to do according to task and price.

Anonymous

#2. They say ignorance is bliss.... they're wrong

Franz Kafka

#3. I don't know, I'm kinda busy. I've got a pity party scheduled for eight o'clock followed by wallowing at nine.

Mia Sheridan

#4. Children are amazing. Believe in yourself and stay strong. And remember that there are people out there who can help you when things get tough.

Stephen Mulhern

#5. We are not permitted to linger, even with what is most intimate. From images that are full, the spirit plunges on to others that suddenly must be filled; there are no lakes till eternity. Here, falling is best. To fall from the mastered emotion into the guessed-at, and onward.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#6. I'm not good with time. Like, if I ask you the time and you say A quarter to 2, I wouldn't know. Why can't you just say 2:30?

Nicole Polizzi

#7. I think that a strong Israel is the only Israel that will bring the Arabs to the peace table.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#8. Ladies with curly hair / Have time to spare.

Phyllis McGinley

#9. She read it over one last time, not really satisfied, but it was the truth. Even if it still had some scratch-outs.

Sharon M. Draper

#10. When a horse learns to buy martinis, I'll learn to like horses.

Steve McQueen

#11. Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.

Thomas Hardy

#12. If I have to be remembered for something, I want it remembered that I really liked children and was a good camp counselor.

Francis Ford Coppola

#13. I've learned a lot during my years on the 3rd Circuit, particularly, I think, about the way in which a judge should go about the work of judging. I've learned by doing, by sitting on all of these cases. And I think I've also learned from the examples of some really remarkable colleagues.

Samuel Alito

#14. A plant is only worth growing if it looks good when it is dead.

Piet Oudolf

#15. That night longer than all my life before it. No scale or measure in this world can ever be held constant. We are always slipping.

David Vann

#16. These flowers are like the pleasures of the world.

William Shakespeare