“I had the good luck a few years ago to visit the archeological site of Zippori in Israel ... I could see here displayed the Greek culture that Jesus decisively rejected, the same Greek culture that infiltrated the Christian religion soon after his death and has dominated Christianity ever since.” YearsChristianCultureJesusChristianityYears AgoLuckIsraelGreekRejectedSiteGood LuckGreek Culture Author:Freeman Dyson
“Maui is a beautiful island. It's really the site of an ancient civilization that we've forgotten about, a civilization that existed millions of years ago. When their time came, they left this world and another race was born, the race of human beings.” WorldYearsHumansBeautifulLeftBornHuman BeingsRaceMillionsThis WorldBuddhismCivilizationYears AgoForgottenAncientIslandsSiteMauiAncient Civilizations Author:Frederick Lenz
“Just five years ago, it was almost impossible to waste a million dollars building a Web site.” YearsMillionsFiveImpossibleBuildingWasteYears AgoDollarsFive YearsSiteMillion Dollars Author:David Walker
“If you make something good, eventually the audience will be there, eventually there will be something on the Internet that is a cultural phenomenon that's not available anywhere else, that's not available on television broadcasts, that's not on cable, it's only on some Web site. And the world will find it. And when that happens, it will be what the 'kiss' was to the theatrical movie business, 5,000 years ago or whenever it was.” IfsWorldYearsHappensAudienceTelevisionInternetKissingYears AgoAvailablePhenomenonSiteCablesTheatricalMovie Business Author:Michael Eisner
“When we launched our [ Vogue] site around five years ago, I had already started this process on paper. We are now building an enormous portfolio of photos, we've uploaded two million photos and we have three people that review them.” PeopleYearsTwoThreeProcessMillionsFiveBuildingPaperYears AgoEnormousFive YearsReviewsSiteVoguePortfolios Author:Franca Sozzani
“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.” YearsEarthResultsTechnologyLandThousandYears AgoKillingConservativeSpreadDrivingDevelopingFedsFarmersTwelveElsewhereAgricultureSiteThousand YearsHuntersFarmingSuitableAdoptingHunter Gatherers Author:Jared Diamond