Great Quotes
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Great Quotes
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#2It should be noted that "Tara Ploughman" is an anagram of "Not Paul Graham".
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#3"I hate quotation. Tell me what you know" Emerson :-)
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#4> "When schoolchildren start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of schoolchildren."
> - Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers, 1985
This is of course an invented quote, but it tells you where the head of the person quoting it is at.
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#5> "When schoolchildren start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of schoolchildren." > - Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers, 1985 This is of course an invented quote, but it tells you where the head of the person quoting it is at.
The whole CCSS (Common Core State Standards) is an example of groups with power/influence in the system pushing changes that benefit the true customers of the 'educational system' (which are not the kids, but Pearson et al.). New educational standards mean new textbooks, new revenue streams, new consulting engagements, teacher trainings, golf outings to wine/dine superintendents - it goes on and on.
See also, the demise of Outbox
> What does “Disruption” mean to DC?
When Evan and Will got called in to meet with the Postmaster General they were joined by the USPS’s General Counsel and Chief of Digital Strategy. But instead, Evan recounts that US Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe “looked at us” and said “we have a misunderstanding. ‘You disrupt my service and we will never work with you.’” Further, “‘You mentioned making the service better for our customers; but the American citizens aren’t our customers—about 400 junk mailers are our customers. Your service hurts our ability to serve those customers.”’
According to Evan, the Chief of Digital Strategy’s comments were even more stark, “[Your market model] will never work anyway. Digital is a fad. It will only work in Europe.”
Evan and Will would later call the meeting one of the most “surreal moments of their lives.”
Donahoe’s comments are even more incredible for people with technology backgrounds. In tech vernacular, “disruption” is an extremely positive term for when an old market model is displaced by a new market model that is better for the consumer and often cheaper to provide.
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#6"I hate quotation. Tell me what you know" Emerson :-)
"I see what you did there."
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#7It should be noted that "Tara Ploughman" is an anagram of "Not Paul Graham".
Here's Paul Graham's explanation of why he quoted himself using an anagram. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=554915
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#8It should be noted that "Tara Ploughman" is an anagram of "Not Paul Graham".
Thanks did not know that.
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#9It should be noted that "Tara Ploughman" is an anagram of "Not Paul Graham".
Here's Paul Graham's explanation of why he quoted himself using an anagram. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=554915
> (It turns out if you want to write one-sentence essays, you have to attribute them to someone else.)
A concise summary of the use case for twitter.
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#10These are surprisingly worthless, without the quoty explaining the context. Kind of like Zen Koans, you can make of them what you will.