Patty Hearst Quotes

The same computers that make it impossible for you to cheat on your income tax can ensure that the blood of your group is in the ambulance that picks you up from a car smash.

I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me!

My personal fascination with the power of the crowd has been growing: Exactly what can a 'crowd' accomplish? We know crowds can raise billions of dollars, create Wikipedia, and even design and build small autonomous drones. But how about something large and complex like designing a new car, and maybe someday even a spaceship?

Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!

When you travel around Moscow, you can see almost every car is using a smartphone where they can see what's ahead of them.

if we see a number of persons engaged in bringing about a particular result, no matter what the result may be, and their actions are consistent with the existence of a design to bring about such a result, and that they finally do succeed in bringing it about, all must assume that there was some concerted action, some agreement or arrangement between them to cement their unity of conduct to reach the result afterwards accomplished.

There's a perception that police are less likely to do the marginal additional policing that suppresses crime: the getting out of your car at 2 in the morning and saying to a group of guys, 'What are you doing here?'

After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.

Cars, toys, aspirin, meat, toasters, water - nearly every product sold has passed basic safety regulations well in advance of being marketed and sold. But consumer credit is a kind of buyer-beware, wild west. That is partly the result of history.

If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior...you need to create a community around them, where those new beliefs can be practiced and expressed and nurtured.

To come into camp and have my defensive coordinator say you won't be touched, I feel like a kid all over again.

What's the safest thing to be when one is met by a gang of social outcasts in an alley? ...No, another social outcast!

The most important thing today is that Mark Webber is safe and OK. After a very nasty accident, he's fine.

Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

Dustfinger closed his eyes and listened. He was home again.

When all else fails to organize the people, conditions will.

Probably looking at a piece of paper and all the features of a minivan, the minivan is probably the best car in the world.

I was accustomed to walking alone. I'd find other people who agreed with me, but they also said, "I wouldn't dare mention it." I was the only one who would say, "We've got to stand." And they said, "Well, yes. And after you make it safe, then I'll stand, too. But you have to make it safe."

The thing we have to fear in this country, to my way of thinking, is the influence of the organized minorities, because somehow or other the great majority does not seem to organize. They seem to feel that they are going to be effective because of their own strength, but they give no expression of it.

If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought.

I don't have to convince everybody in the room. I just need a critical mass of the people in the room.

This is the ultimate bad-boy date, isn't it? Breaking into a different country." "Hey, it makes a change from hot-wiring cars together." "Been there, done that....Alex seriously, are you sure no one's going to shoot us?

The technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done.

I've got the kid. I feel a little more relief that I don't have to just think about myself too much.

History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.