Quote

"You take a step, then another. That's the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it's a remaking of your own mind."

Quote from "Ender in Exile" by Orson Scott Card

Quote from The World Is Flat

"The act of participating is like a muscle you have to use, and we are so we are so unused to being active participants in the process that even though the tools are there now many people don't use them..." Micah Sifry.

The context of this quote was about the relative small number of people who upload. "Uploading is defined as the new found power of individuals to send up, out, or around their own products and ideas, often for free rather than passively downloading them..." writes book author Thomas L. Friedman.

Blogging is a form of uploading. Also open source software development. Actually, anything that involves producing content rather than simply consuming it.

It is an interesting book so far.

Quote of the Day - July 31, 2007

“The man who can read and doesn’t is indistinguishable from the man who can’t.”

I am trying to find out who this can be attributed to. When I do, I will update this post.

Quote of the Day - Jan 28, 2007

"Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it's worse when they are wearing dark glasses and have streamers in their antlers because then you know they were enjoying themselves at a party when they were shot." -- Ellen DeGeneres

Quote of the Day - Jan 25, 2007

Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate,
but that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.
It is not just in some; it is in everyone.

And, as we let our own light shine, we consciously give
other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.

~Nelson Mandela

Quote of the Day - Jan 23, 2007

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke