Site Quotes - Page 25

• The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably but convincingly melded into a fantasy about the classic sites of Europe as imagined by exiles from cold peripheral lands, nostalgia about somebody else's past.

  Edmund White

  School, Italian, Past

  Edmund White (2016). “A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic”, p.102, Pan Macmillan

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• I have my team focused on the front end, working on the user experience, and making sure we have all the wiki-like tools people need to work on the site. We're just cranking away.

  Jimmy Wales

  Team, People, Needs

  "Jimmy Wales: Why the recession won't kill digital media". Interview with Susan Kuchinskas, www.imediaconnection.com. March 28, 2009.

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• I'm on it pretty much all the time. I edit Wikipedia every day, I'm on Facebook, I'm on Twitter, I'm reading the news. During one of the US elections, I actually went through my computer and I blocked myself from looking at the major newspaper sites and Google News because I wasn't getting any work done.

  Jimmy Wales

  Reading, Google, Wikipedia

  "Jimmy Wales: The Internet's Shy Evangelist". Interview with Emily Dugan, www.independent.co.uk. October 22, 2011.

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• I knew who Leonard Nimoy was, and that he embodied what Star Trek meant to all the fans. But it wasn't until I started doing my research for this movie, and started going to fan sites, that I began to fall in love with these characters.

  Zoe Saldana

  Falling In Love, Stars, Character

  "Zoe Saldana ‘Star Trek’ Interview with Kam Williams". newsblaze.com. May 4, 2009.

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• Never leave the site of a goal without first taking some form of positive action towards its attainment. Right now, take a moment to define the first steps you must take to achieve some goal. What can you do today to move forward?

  Tony Robbins

  Moving, Goal, Today

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Sep 21, 2014

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• Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site of origin.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Female, Body

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.79, Vintage

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• If your goals is to produce something of permanent value, you start to think differently about you want on the site.

  Joel Spolsky

  Thinking, Goal, Entrepreneur

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• Power is not a matter of one dominant individual or institutions, but instead manifests in interconnected, contradictory sites where regimes of knowledge and practice circulate and take hold. This way of understanding the dispersion of power helps us realize that power is not simply about certain individuals being targeted for death or exclusion by a ruler, but instead about the creation of norms that distribute vulnerability and security.

  Dean Spade

  Practice, Understanding, Matter

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• The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Sports, Pain

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• Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.

  Seamus Heaney

  Realizing, Consciousness, Discourse

  Seamus Heaney (2014). “Crediting Poetry: The Nobel Lecture”, p.11, Macmillan

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• The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Literature, Might, Soil

  1850 The Scarlet Letter, ch.1.

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• If only one party in the relationship is working to create love, to create the space of emotional connection, the dominator model remains in place and the relationship just becomes a site for continuous power struggle.

  Bell Hooks

  Party, Struggle, Emotional

  bell hooks (2004). “The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• The bigger the network, the harder it is to leave. Many users find it too daunting to start afresh on a new site, so they quietly consent to Facebook's privacy bullying.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Bullying, Privacy, Bigger

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• Search engine marketing and search engine optimization are critically important to online businesses. You can spend every penny you have on a website, but it will all be for nothing if nobody knows your site is there.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  Marketing, Important, Pennies

  "Search Engines 101: Part I" by Marc Ostrofsky, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 23, 2011.

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• And then you take a look at Spaces, there is this great innovation that came out of nowhere. We have the number one blogging site in the world because of the innovation that's there.

  Steve Ballmer

  Numbers, Space, Innovation

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• Twelve thousand years ago, everybody on earth was a hunter-gatherer; now almost all of us are farmers or else are fed by farmers. The spread of farming from those few sites of origin usually did not occur as a result of the hunter-gatherers' elsewhere adopting farming; hunter-gatherers tend to be conservative.... Instead, farming spread mainly through farmers' outbreeding hunters, developing more potent technology, and then killing the hunters or driving them off of all lands suitable for agriculture.

  Jared Diamond

  Technology, Agriculture, Years

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• Conjunctivitis.com — that’s a site for sore eyes.

  Tim Vine

  Eye, Sore Eyes

  "Tim Vine's one-liners - what is his best joke? - poll" by Mayer Nissim, www.digitalspy.com. February 10, 2012.

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• You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Design, Hammers, Use

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• For every new feature we add, we take an old one out. A lot of big sites don't do that, and it's a problem.

  David Karp

  Add, Problem, Bigs

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• I don't buy art. I'd rather buy a beautiful location or a beautiful site than buy art. A beautiful home is like owning a beautiful painting, except you can live in it.

  Millard Drexler

  Beautiful, Art, Home

  "The Merchant" by Nick Paumgarten, www.newyorker.com. September 20, 2010.

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• But I'll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site as possible in the landscape.

  Richard Serra

  Trying, Landscape, Characteristics

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• For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Jobs, Years, Docks

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• With the advent of Twitter and Facebook and other social networking sites, genuine privacy can only be found by renting a private villa for a holiday. Hotels are now out of the question for my wife and I.

  Robert Powell

  Holiday, Wife, Networking

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• For every new feature we add, we take an old one out. A lot of big sites don’t do that, and it’s a problem. Twitter started as a beautifully simple product, but it’s now going the same route as Facebook. The drive to innovate can overencumber and destroy a product.

  David Karp

  Simple, Add, Problem

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• Content is often the reason users come to your site.

  Jesse James Garrett

  Reason, Users

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