863 – “When I see people working on computers creating animation, it’s watching something magical happening. But I turn back every time to my pencil and paper.”

–Hayao Miyazaki

738 – “The privacy thing has gotten totally out of control. I think most people are not aware of who is tracking them, how much they’re being tracked and sort of the large amounts of detailed data that are out there about them.”

–Tim Cook, CEO of Apple

January 28th was Data Privacy Day, a day to raise awareness and promote privacy and data protection best practices. This is especially important in our internet connected world, where your personal data is only a few clicks away.

–Tim Cook, CEO of Apple

January 28th was Data Privacy Day, a day to raise awareness and promote privacy and data protection best practices. This is especially important in our internet connected world, where your personal data is only a few clicks away.

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737 – “We need to ask ourselves not only what computers can do, but what computers should do.”

–Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft

Yesterday was Data Privacy Day, a day to raise awareness and promote privacy and data protection best practices. This is especially important in our internet connected world, where your personal data is only a few clicks away.

–Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft

Yesterday was Data Privacy Day, a day to raise awareness and promote privacy and data protection best practices. This is especially important in our internet connected world, where your personal data is only a few clicks away.

736 – “We reject the excuse that getting the most out of technology means trading away your right to privacy. So we choose a different path, collecting as little of your data as possible, being thoughtful and respectful when it’s in our care because we know it belongs to you.”

–Tim Cook, CEO of Apple

Today is Data Privacy Day, a day to raise awareness and promote privacy and data protection best practices. This is especially important in our internet connected world, where your personal data is only a few clicks away.

580 -“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘eureka!’ but ‘that’s funny….'”

–Isaac Asimov

483 – “If there were no electricity, we would all be watching our television by candlelight.” | “Just think, if the string on Benjamin Franklin’s kite had broken, tonight we’d all be watching TV by candlelight!”

–George Gobel [See Source Notes]

461 – “Science is not a boy’s game, it’s not a girl’s game. It’s everyone’s game. It’s about where we are and where we’re going.”

–Nichelle Nichols

443 – “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.”

–John F Kennedy, 35th President of the United States of America

424 – “I knew it’s also true that a good way to invent the future is to predict it. So I predicted Utopia, hoping to give Liberty a running start before the laws of Moore and Metcalfe delivered up what Ed Snowden now correctly calls ‘turn-key totalitarianism.’”

–John Perry Barlow

372 – The Final Speech from the Great Dictator

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“I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone – if possible – Jew, Gentile – black man – white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness – not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.

Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost….

The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men – cries out for universal brotherhood – for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world – millions of despairing men, women, and little children – victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.

To those who can hear me, I say – do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed – the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. …..

Soldiers! don’t give yourselves to brutes – men who despise you – enslave you – who regiment your lives – tell you what to do – what to think and what to feel! Who drill you – diet you – treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men – machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don’t hate! Only the unloved hate – the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!

In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is written: “the Kingdom of God is within man” – not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people have the power – the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

Then – in the name of democracy – let us use that power – let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world – a decent world that will give men a chance to work – that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfil that promise. They never will!

Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people! Now let us fight to fulfill that promise! Let us fight to free the world – to do away with national barriers – to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness. Soldiers! in the name of democracy, let us all unite!”

–Charlie Chaplin as the Jewish Barber in The Great Dictator (1940)