“Information wants to be free.' So goes the saying. Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, seems to have said it first.I say that information doesn't deserve to be free.Cybernetic totalists love to think of the stuff as if it were alive and had its own ideas and ambitions. But what if information is inanimate? What if it's even less than inanimate, a mere artifact of human thought? What if only humans are real, and information is not?...Information is alienated experience.” IfsThinkingWantFirstsHumansSaidIdeasRealWholeSeemsEarthStuffAliveInformationAmbitionDeserveMereBrandsWhat IfFoundersArtifactsHuman Thought Book:You Are Not a Gadget Source: You Are Not a Gadget
“I find the whole concept of being 'SEXY' embarrassing and confusing. If I do an interview with photographs people desperately want to change me- dye my hair blonder, pluck my eyebrows. Then there's the choice of clothes. I know everyone wants a picture of me in a mini skirt, BUT THATS NOT ME. I feel uncomfortable. I'd never go out in a mini skirt. Personally, I don't actually think it's even that sexy. Whats sexy about saying, 'I'm here with my boobs out and a short skirt, have a look at everything I've got?' My idea of sexy is that less is more. The LESS you reveal the MORE people can wonder.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWantFeelsLooksIdeasWholeChoicesWonderHairClothesConceptsPhotographSexyUncomfortableInterviewsEmbarrassingConfusingEyebrowsSkirtsPluckLess Is MoreBeing SexyShort Skirts Author:Emma Watson
“What I can't understand is why you can't see the extraordinary beauty of the idea that life started from nothing - that is such a staggering, elegant, beautiful thing, why would you want to clutter it up with something so messy as a God?” WantI CanIdeasBeautifulExtraordinaryBeautiful ThingsElegantMessyClutterStaggeringExtraordinary Beauty Author:Richard Dawkins
“From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.” WantMaySaidIdeasReturnSlaverySlave Book:The Booker T. Washington Reader Source: The Booker T. Washington Reader
“Our accent will be upon youth: we need new ideas, new methods, new approaches. We will call upon young students of political science throughout the nation to help us. We will encourage these young students to launch their own independent study, and then give us their analysis and their suggestions. We are completely disenchanted with the old, adult, established politicians. We want to see some new faces -- more militant faces.” WantNeedsGivingIdeasHelpingFacesYoungPoliticalNationsStudyYouthStudentsPoliticianApproachAdultsIndependentMethodAnalysisNew IdeasAccentsSuggestionsPolitical ScienceMilitantNew ApproachNew FacesDisenchantedYoung Students Author:Malcolm X
“I would urge the government to allocate more funds toward fighting cancer. My own situation, it made me think. It made me think about the potential of dying. I wouldn't say I was scared. I'm more scared of how it will happen than of it happening. I'm not scared that I'm going to die. I think of how I'm going to die ... I don't want to linger. That scares me a little. The idea of lingering.” ThinkingWantLittlesMadeIdeasGovernmentHappensDiesFightingMy OwnSituationDyingHappeningsCancerScaredUrgesFundScareLingeringFighting Cancer Author:Arnold Palmer
“I don't particularly care about having [my characters] talk realistically, that doesn't mean very much to me. Actually, a lot of people speak more articulately than some critics think, but before the 20th century it really didn't occur to many writers that their language had to be the language of everyday speech. When Wordsworth first considered that in poetry, it was considered very much of a shocker. And although I'm delighted to have things in ordinary speech, it's not what I'm trying to perform myself at all: I want my characters to get their ideas across, and I want them to be articulate.” PeopleThinkingWantWritingTryingFirstsMeanIdeasCharacterCareSpeakLanguageCenturySpeechOrdinaryCriticsEveryday20th CenturyDelightedWordsworth Author:Louis Auchincloss
“To spread healthy ideas among even the lowest classes of people, to remove men from the influence of prejudice and passion, to make reason the arbiter and supreme guide of public opinion; that is the essential goal of the sciences; that is how science will contribute to the advancement of civilization, and that is what deserves protection of governments who want to insure the stability of their power.” PeopleMenWantIdeasReasonGovernmentPassionGoalOpinionClassInfluenceCivilizationHealthyEssentialsDeservePrejudiceSpreadProtectionGuidesSupremeRemoveStabilityLowestPublic OpinionAdvancementArbiter Author:Georges Cuvier
“We all have our individual romantic or idealistic ideas. To get information that masturbation is our basic form of sex is hard, because who wants to admit they're masturbating?” WantIdeasHardFormIndividualSexInformationMasturbationIdealistic Author:Betty Dodson
“Those who want to burn books are either afraid of the ideas contained within the covers or they haven't the courage to stand up for the views which they themselves profess to hold.” WantBookIdeasViewsHavensBurn Book Author:Tommy Douglas
“There is a divide in our culture between people who want to see evidence of a politiсian's knowledge and worldliness, and people for whom "git 'er done" actions, as you put it, provide tangible proof of the ability to lead. I don't know how developed that idea is.” PeopleKnowsWantIdeasDoneActionCultureAbilityKnow HowEvidenceProofDividesTangibleWorldliness Author:Libby Copeland
“People work hard and save hard to own a car. They do not want to be told that they cannot drive it by a Deputy Prime Minister whose idea of a park and ride scheme is to park one Jaguar and drive away in another.” PeopleWantIdeasHardCarHard WorkMinistersParksPrimeSchemesPrime MinisterDeputiesJaguars Author:William Hague
“I hope I can pass on a few thoughts and ideas to the Sci-Fi channel to encourage people to see that they are living in a conditioned illusion and we can change it any time we want. We can be people and not sheeple.” PeopleWantI CanIdeasIllusionSci FiThoughts And Ideas Author:David Icke
“We're not trying to prove the character of God through science. That's a bad idea. What I'm trying to do is clear away the misunderstandings, the debris that prevent people from accepting that God who wants to accept them.” PeopleWantTryingIdeasCharacterAcceptingClearProveMisunderstandingBad IdeasDebrisCharacter Of God Author:Phillip E. Johnson
“I don't think he (Joseph Albers, fh) ever realized that it was his discipline that I came for. Besides, my response to what I learned from him was just the opposite of what he intended.. ..I was very hesitant about arbitrarily designing forms and selecting colors that would achieve some predetermined result, because I didn't have any ideas to support that sort of thing - I didn't want color to serve me, in other words.” ThinkingWantIdeasFormResultsSupportAchieveDesignColorDisciplineOppositesResponsePredeterminedHesitant Author:Robert Rauschenberg
“I believe that science is best left to scientists, that you cannot have managers or directors of science, it's got to be carried out and done by people with ideas, people with concepts, people who feel in their bones that they want to go ahead and develop this, that, or the other concept which occurs to them.” PeopleWantFeelsBelieveIdeasDoneLeftI BelieveDirectorsConceptsScientistBonesManagers Author:Mark Oliphant
“I decided a long time ago I didn't want to be a star personality and live my life out in public. I don't think it's a good idea to wave personality about like a flag and become labeled.” ThinkingWantLongIdeasStarsPersonalityLong TimeDecidedWaveGood IdeasFlagsLiving My LifeLong Time Ago Author:Paul Scofield
“It's absolutely irrelevant what galleries and critics and people who buy your paintings think. They just don't have any possible idea of what happens to you and they're really not that interested. As a matter of fact, they hate the idea that anything really happens to you. They want you to be a genius and that's it.” PeopleThinkingWantIdeasMatterFactsHappensHatePaintingGeniusCriticsIrrelevantGalleryMatter Of Fact Author:Milton Resnick
“If there is no idea in the drawing, there is no idea in the constructed project. That's the expression of the idea. Architects make drawings that other people build. I make the drawings. If someone wants to build from those, that's up to them. I feel I'm making architecture. I believe the building comes into being as soon as it's drawn.” PeopleIfsWantFeelsBelieveIdeasI BelieveBuildingExpressionProjectsArchitectureDrawingNo IdeaArchitect Author:Lebbeus Woods