- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
People Quotes
Quotes about people, privacy, and human nature.
This page collects quotes touching on people in different senses - novelists describing how characters take on independent vitality, and technologists warning how easily people's movements and data can be tracked. It's a broader mix than a single theme, much like Like Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I were brave enough to say so, I'd like to think that I had written some poems that people are not going to forget.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are talking about the Internet as though it is going to change the world. It's not going to change the world. It's not going to change the way we think, and it's not going to change the way we feel.
- Organization
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1980, during my sophomore year at MIT, I realized that the school didn't have a student space organization. I made posters for a group I called Students for the Exploration and Development of Space and put them up all over campus. Thirty-five people showed up. It was the first thing I ever organized, and it took off!
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people are dreaming big because they have the tools to dream big. I hope that people are dreaming big because it makes them feel good about their lives.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people; but only if they believe there's a chance of success.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your mission is to find a product or service that can positively impact the lives of 1 billion people because that's the game we're playing today.
- Hear People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You might hear people decry the loss of privacy in today's world, but radical transparency is dramatically reducing violence everywhere. Most violent things happen in the dark when no one's watching, whether it's an oppressive dictator or someone causing violence in the inner city.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
Millions of years ago, our brains became wired to remember about 150 people as 'close friends.'
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Two-thirds of all growth takes place in cities because, by simple fact of population density, our urban spaces are perfect innovation labs. The modern metropolis is jam-packed. People are living atop one another; their ideas are as well.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Net is allowing us to turn ourselves into a giant, collective meta-intelligence. And this meta-intelligence continues to grow as more and more people come online.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
The constant monitoring of our emotional landscape and personal interactions is a bizarre concept. But it is one that could help many people.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are nearly one billion illiterate people on Earth.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 1940s, about 20% of people in the U.S. had graduated from high school, but less than 5% continued their education to get bachelors' degrees or higher.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020