Quotes of: Information-age Keyword

As I travelled around Australia, strangers in pubs, on airplanes, in beach parking lots would bring up Gina Rinehart, not knowing I was writing about her. Everybody had something to say, some of it thoughtful, some of it poorly informed, some of it v...

William Finnegan

Square is turning informal, cash transactions, like you would do with a taco truck, into card swipes. Stripe is more for the Internet, it's focused on the kinds of transactions that weren't possible years ago. We think about how you would buy things ...

Patrick Collison

WikiLeaks exposed corruption, war crimes, torture and cover-ups. It showed that we were lied to about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; that the U.S. military had deliberately hidden information about systematic torture and civilian casualties, which...

Jemima Khan

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaseless...

Lewis Thomas

My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was alwa...

Naomi Shihab Nye

There's a tendency on the part of Americans, all of us, to say, 'Hey, the Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is gone, we don't have to worry about these guys again.' We always have to be worried about them, we always have to be concerned about them, ...

Russ Feingold

The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

He's been injecting the anti-aging hormone into his wife.

Blue Coyote Motel

I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.

Adrian Belew

I think for all of us, as we age, there are always a few moments when you are shocked.

Annette Bening

One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.

Aphra Behn

I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.

Adam Carolla

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.

Albert Einstein

I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.

Abel Ferrara

At a very early age I knew I wanted to be an actor and then more specifically that I wanted to be on Broadway and be in musicals.

Andrew Rannells

Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.

Alexander McCall Smith

We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.

Alfred de Vigny

Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?

Basil Bunting

The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.

Barry Commoner

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

Billy Joel

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

Bertrand Russell