- Nov 07, 2020
Today Quotes
What today decides for tomorrow.
This page connects present-day choices to long-term consequences, whether in communication security policy or the shifting economics of building a sports team. For present-moment reflections, see Life.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a rule, I am very skeptical of tying books to anniversaries. I don't think readers care. I also feel that it just about guarantees that somebody else will be writing a book on the same subject, but being a former journalist, I'm always interested in, like, why write about something today? Why do it now?
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing we seem to be missing is that just as we no longer search for the news, the news finds us today (e.g. this article found me) we will no longer search for products and services, rather we will look to our social graph to what products and services they like and don't like.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people of color and their allies say today that Black Lives Matter, the nation must hear and see it through the lens of all that has come before and understand that they speak truth.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where today people surf the Web and check their e-mail on their cell phones, tomorrow they will be checking their vital signs.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a really paradoxical thing. We want to think big, but start small. And then scale fast. People think about trying to build the next Facebook as trying to start where Facebook is today, as a major global presence.
- Hard Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I quit smoking three weeks ago and I had a hard day today not smoking.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1.
- Happen
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a growing market today for local, organic foods produced by small farmers. And farmers' markets have played a large role in making that happen.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jeremy Lin is the only Asian American in the NBA today and one of the few in any professional U.S. sport. His arrival is surely leading other talented Asian American athletes this week to contemplate a pro career.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today, public understanding of our past and our system of government is pitifully low.
- Pressure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white.
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- Nov 07, 2020