Quotes About Influence

Gustavo Solivellas dice: La religión es excelente para mantener callada a la gente común (Frank Zappa)

Companies that are indifferent to democracy have acquired an outsized role in it.

More than any previous coterie of corporations, the tech monopolies aspire to mold humanity into their desired image of it. They believe that they have the opportunity to complete the long merger between man and machine—to redirect the trajectory of human evolution.

Instead of profound redistributions of power, the new networks are captured by new monopolies, each more powerful and sophisticated than the one before it.

Like nineteenth-century European powers, each company does little to impinge on the other's sphere of influence, competing only on the fringes of empire.

The Hoover experiment, in the end, hardly realized the happy fantasies about the Engineer King. A very different version of this dream, however, has come to fruition, in the form of the CEOs of the big tech companies. We're not ruled by engineers, not yet, but they have become the dominant force in American life, the highest, most influential tier of our elite.

We're watched on the Internet so that companies can more effectively sell us goods. The fact that Internet surveillance isn't totalitarian, however, doesn't mean that it does us no harm. We're watched so that we can be manipulated.

But there's another way to describe the convenience of the machine: It is the surrender of free will—algorithms make choices for us.

The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.

I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.

If something good has lost its way into you, it will make its escape overnight. I know you.

Faptele dumneavoastra vor lasa poate urme adînci de pasi în zapada, dar atît.

Müzikten bu denli etkilendiÄŸine göre bir hayvan m?yd? gerçekten?

Wenn man einmal das Böse bei sich aufgenommen hat, verlangt es nicht mehr, daß man ihm glaube.

And where do you see in all this the influence of the Castle? asked K. So far it doesn't seem to have come in. What you've told me about is simply the ordinary senseless fear of the people, malicious pleasure in hurting a neighbor, specious friendship, things that can be found anywhere,...

A verdadeira explicação de tudo isto é que um grande diabo o dominou e que uma infinidade de diabos mais pequenos aparecem para servir o grande.

10 februarie. Insomnie; nici cea mai mic? leg?tur? cu oamenii, decât leg?turile create de ei, ÅŸi care pentru moment m? conving, ca de altfel tot ceea ce fac ei.

Todas tus medidas pedagógicas han dado en el blanco; no he esquivado ni un solo golpe; tal y como soy, soy el resultado (aparte, claro, de mi constitución y las influencias de la vida) de tu educación y de mi obediencia

Sa svog naslonja?a vladao si svijetom. Tvoje mišljenje bilo je pravilno, svako drugo bilo je ludo, prenapeto, nenormalno. Pri tome, bilo je tvoje samopouzdanje tako veliko da nisi ni morao biti dosljedan,a ipak si još uvijek imao pravo.

Ako te to toliko mami, a ti pokušaj da odeš tamo. Ali upamti; ja sam mo?an. A ja sam samo posljednji po ?inu.

Ništa zemaljsko ne može ne može odoljeti osje?anju da smo pobijedili osobnom snagom, kao niti nametanje koje otuda proizlazi i povla?i sve za sobom.

The smoke from Mr Green's cigar, a present from Pollunder, of a thickness that his father would occasionally affirm existed, but had probably never witnessed with his own eyes, spread throughout the room, and carried Green's influence into nooks and corners in which he would personally never set foot.

Pues son las circunstancias; el hecho de que a uno le guste o no una cosa no siempre es lo decisivo. Por

He said he'd like to help the chief financial officer himself, because he was a good and honest man, but he didn't know how to go about it, and he could only hope that influential people would intervene in his behalf. He thought that would surely happen and that things would turn out well, but for the moment, as he gathered form the chief financial officer's mood, things didn't look at all good.