Electronico 2020 Quotes & Sayings

I found that there is very little interest in Washington for true election reform. That neither the White House nor either house of the Congress seems to be as committed to guaranteeing democratic participation in this country as we seem to be in other countries. — DeForest Soaries

Health is the ability to be fully and consciously aware of all that contributes to your life experience and to effectively exist in that environment. It then means you see yourself as you really are. — Rand Olson

In a piece called "No More Yes. It's Either HELL YEAH! Or No," the popular TED speaker Derek Sivers describes a simple technique for becoming more selective in the choices we make. The key is to put the decision to an extreme test: if we feel total and utter conviction to do something, then we say yes, Derek-style. Anything less gets a thumbs down. — Greg McKeown

Let's reserve judgment for people who beat their children, sell their daughters into prostitution, or deny women the right to make decisions about their bodies and their lives. — Mayim Bialik

They take away your shoelaces and your belt so you can't kill yourself no matter how bad it is. I guess making you live is part of the punishment. — Walter Dean Myers

Nobody could have imagined the phenomenon that 'Star Trek' became. It's still almost impossible to imagine. — William Shatner

Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I 'haunt.' — Andre Breton

I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves. — Louise L. Hay

Pain speaks louder than words ever could. Like most things it serves as both messenger and a symbol. — Brandi L. Bates

The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up. — Martin Shaw

Confidentiality refers to the boundaries surrounding shared secrets and to the process of guarding these boundaries. While confidentiality protects much that is not in fact secret, personal secrets lie at its core. The innermost, the vulnerable, often the shameful: these aspects of self-disclosure help explain why one name for professional confidentiality has been "the professional secret." Such secrecy is sometimes mistakenly confused with privacy; yet it can concern many matters in no way private, but that someone wishes to keep from the knowledge of third parties. — Sissela Bok

The amateur software engineer is always in search of magic. — Grady Booch

We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars. — Robert Charles Wilson