Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.
Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go.
Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.
If there is a Like button in a page, Facebook knows who visited that page. And it can get IP address of the computer visiting the page even if the person is not a Facebook user.
Canadian writers don't live in gated mansions; you can just talk to them when you see them lining up at the Second Cup.
Shikun & Binui, our infrastructure and real estate company, implements sustainability by building their projects 100% sustainable while educating their employees worldwide.
I can't afford security. I can't afford a gated house. So, I feel a little vulnerable. I wish some laws would come into play.
It's not like they just open the gate to Hollywood and off you go - you earn your stripes. I worked ferociously hard even just to get an agent.
I got involved early on in social media - I created one of the first social networks - and for me, social gaming was a natural evolution of that.
I was a feminist in the Sixties, and can you imagine? The worst thing I could have done was to be in fashion. It was the most uncomfortable position.
You want to be understood by the sophisticated few but you also have to be more loud somehow, otherwise your message doesn't go through.
What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today when human contacts go so fast. Fashion is instant language.
Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven't accepted it - and it's recognized, debated and followed by an increasing number of businesses.
The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not development.
Well they do have a use, but we should never believe that any international conference is going to suddenly solve problems like the condition of the global environment.
Speculative joy, the joy derived from being right and being rewarded, may well be similar to the rush felt by a winning gambler.
In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism, but the internal forces of apathy, inertia and ignorance of our own heritage.
Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it can be removed. It is just a question of doing it.
Credit markets were originally created to serve human needs; to provide businesses and individuals with capital to start or expand businesses or fulfill other financial needs.
The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them!
Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard.
