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Quotes About Diffusion

Without diffusion, fewer technologies are acquired, and more existing technologies are lost.
~ Jared Diamond
BECAUSE TECHNOLOGY BEGETS more technology, the importance of an invention's diffusion potentially exceeds the importance of the original invention.
~ Jared Diamond
The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.
~ Henry James Sumner Maine
The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors. This results in a talent drain, where the best talent gets diffused and work for their own startups.
~ Sean Parker
With today's fast films, you can light the way your eye sees the scene. You can abuse the film and create subtleties in contrast with light and exposure, diffusion and filters. That's what makes it an art.
~ Conrad Hall
Guilt—if there was any guilt—spread out and diffused itself over everybody and everything…. Perhaps at some point in time, at some spot in the world, a moment of responsibility existed.
~ Philip K. Dick
there is no question that there is an enormous range of technologies that are on the shelf. The problem is the gap between technological development, and diffusion and adoption. It is sobering to be reminded that the first hybrid was invented in 1901.
~ Dale Jamieson
If the knowledge is spread, it cannot be stamped out.
~ Daniel H. Wilson
Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
Io faccio il mio mestiere, capito? Io sono un libraio, vado in giro, vedo un sacco di gente, vendo i libri, scopro talenti nascosti sotto le montagne di carta… io propago idee. Il mio mestiere è il più rischioso del mondo, capito? Sono responsabile della diffusione dei pensieri, magari di quelli più scomodi.
~ Unknown
The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and the diffusion of education.
~ Thomas Piketty
If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion.
~ Lord Hailsham