Richard Pryor Quotes
Freebase? What's free about it?
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip. Directed by Joe Layton, performances by Richard Pryor, Columbia Pictures, 1982.
The collection of quotations, its cross references, concepts, and search engine is just the kind of thing that Bush was predicting.
This basic notion was actually quite radical in the sense that the reality at the time she wrote this article was that people had almost no control over the data about themselves including the fact that individuals in relatively few situations had a right to even see the data that was collected about them. They certainly had no power of ownership which would include the right to have it seen or stored anywhere or not. The largest offender at the time was not the government but the private companies—especially the so called credit agencies. They maintained, and at the time the law supported them is that they owned the data they collected about an individual and could do with it what they wanted regardless of the individual’s wishes.
Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor was an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. He reached a broad audience with his trenchant observations and storytelling style, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential stand-up comedians of all time.
