People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really matter to them.
The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.
My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.
It's childish, but it still gives me great pleasure to see high-res pictures everyone told me would be impossible.
Having grown up on 'Star Trek,' I've had one great dream since childhood, and that is to see my life end somewhere other than here on Earth.
There are a lot of good things about string theory, and it's great that some people want to work on it.
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.
And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.
The DISCLOSE Act is a testament to the wisdom of the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United. The First Amendment sought to place political speech beyond the government's control, and we can be glad that it did.
It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions.
I've been involved in and out of the U.N. for many years - in fact my first internship was in 1971, so it goes back a couple of years!
The Director of the Laboratory, George Reynolds, was most supportive of my efforts to work independently. There followed for ten years a glorious time for research.
Not having time or energy for weight loss makes no sense. Does it take more time or energy to eat fish than prime rib? No.
Elections are a competition with only one winner. Giving more money to the opponent every time one speaks on behalf of a favored candidate discourages the speech that triggers the matching funds.
The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power to either hasten or slow it down.
The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.
To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.
Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.
Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.
No single achievement in science is possible without the painstaking work of the many hundreds who have built the foundation on which all new work is based.
