Tag Archives: Quotes

Pool on the Net

By alex | Published: 8/14/2007
One of my favorites: If media become “demassified” to serve individual wants, it will not be by throwing on lazy readers the arduous task of searching vast information bases, but by programming computers heuristically to give particular readers more of what they chose last time. Computer-aided instructional programs similarly assess students’ past performance before providing […]
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I hope so

By alex | Published: 8/1/2007
Can you be a misanthrope and still love or enjoy some individuals? How about a compassionate misanthrope? – Hillary Rodham (Clinton), 1967 (via NYT) I love this. I doubt she could win on the “compassionate misanthrope” ticket, but I might vote for her if she tried. (I also like the quote from her correspondent, John […]
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The web is filled with big trucks

By alex | Published: 7/25/2007
Ted Stevens has gotten just a little flack about his “series of tubes” comments, in which he argued the “the Internet is not something you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes.” Duh. We all know that the internet is not a big truck. The web is a […]
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Freedom is about authority

By alex | Published: 5/7/2007
A speech by frontrunner Giuliani, as reported in the New York Times. (See the article for context.) We look upon authority too often and focus over and over again, for 30 or 40 or 50 years, as if there is something wrong with authority. We see only the oppressive side of authority. Maybe it comes […]
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