20th-century Blogger Quotes

Jimmy Wales

Uri Geller

Cass Sunstein

Biz Stone

Carl Zimmer

Robert Spencer

Anita Sarkeesian

I can say with absolute certainty I do not cheat. I am not a magician.

Write your way out of a thinking block—because you'll never think your way out of a writing block.

Freedom of speech encompasses precisely the freedom to annoy, to ridicule, and to offend.

If you can't understand the spec for a new technology, don't worry: nobody else will understand it either, and the technology won't be that important.

Cynicism is often seen as a rebellious attitude in western popular culture, but in reality, our cynicism advances the desires of the powerful: cynicism is obedience.

We've always had a love/hate relationship with numbers.

He'd met other prodigies in mathematical competitions. In fact he'd been thoroughly trounced by competitors who probably spent literally all day practising maths problems and who'd never read a science-fiction book and who would burn out completely before puberty and never amount to anything in their future lives because they'd just practised known techniques instead of learning to think creatively.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Is this thing even worth reviewing? Right off the bat, I'm glad to see that my initial reactions to this thing were accurate. Anyone who believes this thing is a game changer is a tool. I'm sorry, but that's just the way it is.

Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.

When the media we create excludes girls and women, fails to depict them as leaders and innovators or treats them as little more than side-kicks, love interests and sex objects, is it any wonder that women are systematically excluded and under-represented in so many careers and leadership positions?

Anita Sarkeesian

[The] majority of the girls working there had major emotional problems. And not cries-too-much emotional problems; more like stabs-her-boyfriend-with-a-steak-knife-then-falls-into-a-corner-and-starts-whispering-to-herself emotional problems.

If you make your business about helping others, you'll always have plenty of work.

Chris Guillebeau

It's a beautiful heart, not a perfect body, that leads to a beautiful life.

Stephanie Nielson

Spiritual development requires the freedom to connect with different parts of reality in order to understand them more fully. The more you're able to explore, the more connections you can form, and the greater your spiritual growth will be. When you feel a strong desire to connect with something in your reality, listen to your intuitive guidance, and make the connection.

Discovering parasites at work in ecosystems can feel a bit like watching in terror as a bank robbery unfolds and then looking across the street and seeing a movie crew with its cameras and boom mikes.

We do not have a plan. They do. History shows that those that plan, anticipate and have a coherent strategy usually win. We are not winning.

The single most important factor to getting rich is getting started, not being the smartest person in the room.

Once a man sees what is possible and makes just a few changes, a whole new world opens up where he finds opportunities that he couldn't see before.

Use only things you find around the bathroom to create something. Extra credit: make it in the bathroom!

The nice thing about having a friend who is crazier than you are is that she bolsters your belief in your own sanity.

Associated with this weight gain are increased risks in adulthood for joint problems, angina, high blood pressure, heart attacks, strokes, type 2 diabetes and, ultimately, premature death. Outside of the human costs, health experts estimate that treating adult obesity-related ailments will cost the American economy nearly $150 billion in 2009.

Jeff Schweitzer

Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.

Most teens aren't addicted to social media; if anything, they're addicted to each other.

As Harvard University psychologist Daniel Gilbert argues, 'You can't adapt to commuting, because it's entirely unpredictable. Driving in traffic is a different kind of hell every day.'

Presumed consent preserves freedom of choice, but it is different from explicit consent because it shifts the default rule. Under this policy, all citizens would be presumed to be consenting donors, but they would have the opportunity to register their unwillingness to donate.