“There are no chairs or tables in my tiny room. Vera says that only savages sit down. Only a prone position is beautiful and becoming to the body. She has spread carpets on mattresses along the walls and scattered pillows over them...
("Thirty-Three Abominations")”
Source: Silver Age of Russian Culture
“One summer when Carol was attending day camp, Greta had an affair with a man named Mel Carter. He was an Eastern publicity representative for a film studio, and often instructed dinner parties to which we went in those days with accounts of the movies' coming of age. 'We have a picture coming up,' he said once, 'in which a character says "son of a bitch." Lots of exciting things are happening. Still, it's only a beginning. Much remains to be done.”
Source: The Blood of the Lamb
“One who begins to live by rapine will always find some reason for taking the goods of others”
Source: The Prince
“Don’t just modernize and digitize your business, but also yourself.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“This is an instance of the truism that, when switching from one recording medium to another, there is always a considerable data loss. As the Roman empire declined, continuing preservation of early texts would be dependent on the efforts of the book copyists in the Middle Ages - and good luck. Are there any resemblances to our current digitization concerns?”
Source: The History of the Book in 100 Books: The Complete Story, From Egypt to E-Book
“Digital management is responsible for designing, enabling, and enforcing a collaborative, innovative, intelligent, inspiring and inclusive working environment.”
Source: 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO's Situational Leadership Practices
“Digital means change, choice, innovation, speed, and people-centricity.”
Source: Digital Maturity: Take a Journey of a Thousand Miles from Functioning to Delight
“The limits of AI are often due to the limits of digitization.”
Source: The Secrets of AI: a Math-Free Guide to Thinking Machines
“The Biblical manuscripts are quite unequivocally clear on the issue of marriage and its definition. The law of the land may change, however the Holy Writ shall not."
~R. Alan Woods [2013]”
Source: The Journey Is the Destination: A Book of Quotes With Commentaries
“tomes / Of reasoned wrong, glozed on by ignorance”
Source: The Major Works