Participants Quotes

The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in "Metcalfe's law”–which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants–becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's.

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

Audiences are audiences.

I don't blame it on the Hell's Angels. I blame it on the people who were there.

The standard way to record a meeting is to list people's names, the topics, and action items. The visual way is to doodle a rectangle (the table) populated by figures (the participants) sitting around the table with their comments as cartoon word balloons.

Some make the world go round; others watch it turn.

Is everybody in?... Is everybody in?... Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin...

Persons whose wagers depend upon how particular selected athletes perform in actual sporting events stand in no different stead than persons who wager on the outcome of any sporting event in which they are not participants.

Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.

Increasingly, campaigns treat the fact-checkers not as arbitrators who must be heeded, but as participants in the ever-roiling political tussle.

In principle, every social situation involves strategic interaction among the participants.

I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.

I always have searched for a point of view that a participant could change.

A procession is a participants' journey, while a parade is a performance with an audience.

You are not an observer, you are a participant.

At times, he even admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it.

Our challenge is this sport needs to be more diverse throughout its makeup of stakeholders, participants, and fans. We're doing a number of things from a multicultural standpoint on and off the track to achieve that. Over time, that's going to be a big opportunity for NASCAR.

We are all participants in the marvelous.

Only 1 in 13 participants in peace negotiations since 1992 has been a woman.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

It is a very wide range of people that we get for the show.

In reconstructing the past, historians generally are compelled to rely on accounts written after the event by participants and witnesses, or on the hearsay versions of those who learned at second-hand what had occurred. Such writings are subject to the infirmities of recollection, or of bias arising from allegiance to one side or the other.

As a note, I never once refer to 'Train' as a game in the rules, and I also never refer to the participants as players.