Category: quotes

“In the Name of God the Flag and Bush Almighty. This is my America, my New Republic…

This is my America. An America with Homeland Security, a Patriot Act. An America with paranoia. An America with hatred and ignorance. An America that wraps itself in its President and its flag. This is my America.

Now when I see the eagle of freedom, I see an eagle of fascism. Now when I see the American flag, I’m afraid for my America. We have become an ugly nation. A nation that has wrapped its eyes so tightly in red, white and blue that it has gone blind. Blinded by nationalism. This is my America. And this is why they hate us, and its not because we love freedom. They hate us because we think like that.”

Christopher Morris, TIME Magazine’s White House photographer

Read more and see the photos here [alternet.org].

“Profit is to be found not just in pleasing dissatisfied customers, but in dissatisfying them in the first place so they will then pay to be pleased.”

Robert X. Cringely, You Can’t Get There From Here: The myth of bandwidth scarcity and can Team Cringely really make it to the Moon?” [pbs.org]

“The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam,”

Tsutomu Shimomura, from ‘Six Japanese Wikipedia ‘editors’ rapped‘ [scotsman.com], via Slashdot [slashdot.org]

“…vanilla fragrance can be effectively extracted from cow dung, and hamsters given Viagra cope better with jetlag.”

— Mason Inman, Poop Vanilla, Endless Soup Among 2007 Ig Nobels [nationalgeographic.com], National Geographic Online

“Apple AND Google have together more money than anyone except God, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates.”

Robert X. Cringely, “The Power of Six: Google’s plan for world domination. Also why the iPod Classic sucks.” [pbs.org]