- Nov 07, 2020
New Quotes
On fresh starts, new cities and beginning again.
Many of the quotes here trace what's new: a new city, a new circle of people, a new chapter after school. Several reflect specifically on relocating and adjusting to a very different pace of life. For more on that theme, see our City quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Internet
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
'The Victorian Internet' is a must read for anyone interested in the history of technology and in the cycles of hype, boom, and bust that seem to only quicken with each new wave of innovation. Highly recommended.
- Devices
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Nearly all web publications are driven by the display model, which is in turn driven by page views. But we all know the web is shifting, thanks to mobile devices and the walled gardens they erect. The new landscape of the web is far more complicated, and new products must emerge.
- Fear
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.
- Politics
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every aspect of their lives, and yet politics is the last place that they are told that they should be satisfied with a choice between brand A and brand B. It doesn't fit the way they think. It doesn't fit the way they live.
- Old
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm old enough to know you can't close your mind to new ideas. You have to test out every possibility if you want something new.
- Good
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Globalization is not a monolithic force but an evolving set of consequences - some good, some bad and some unintended. It is the new reality.
- Important
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really interested in how people feel out new friendships, and at the start of college, that's really important.
- Perception
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses.
- Electromagnetic
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size, or quanta, and that light is an electromagnetic wave motion.
- Words
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
In other words, for every 10 enemy you kill you bring on 20 new recruits to their anti-coalition cause then essentially you are working against yourself.
- Power
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
You don't build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build.
- Make
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it.
- Work
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
In an ideal world, as a director, you usually wish you could do your own thing and not have to take anyone else's point of view into account, but occasionally you work with someone like Robyn, who brings a new set of ideas to the table, and the whole ends up much greater than the sum of the parts.
- Global Economy
- |
- Nov 07, 2020