Rolf Sleimann

Software is soft power. American tech companies should stand up for the values of innovation that made their success possible, not bow down to dictators for a little extra cash they don't even need. Call Putin's bluff.

T4D: 'Thinking has, many a time, made me sad; but doing never did in all my life. My theory is a sort of parody on the maxim of "Get money, my son, honestly if you can; but get money." My precept is, "Do something, my sister, do good if you can; but, at any rate, do something' EG

T4D: 'If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.' Richard Buckminster Fuller

T4D: 'In the end the problem is not so much that people forget but that they do not always forget the same thing. What still exists as a memory for 1 person can be irretrievably lost for another, & this creates difficulties, insuperable barriers against understanding' Paul Auster

T4D: 'If your experiment needs a statistician, you need a better experiment.' Ernest Rutherford

T4D: 'The evidence never seemed to matter to those in power, who had already made up their minds and did what people typically do when their worldview is threatened by new data: they attacked the messenger.' Sol Luckman

T4D: 'The Universe is very, very big. It also loves a paradox. For example, Rule Number One: Nothing lasts forever. Not you or your family or your house or your planet or the sun. It is an absolute rule. Rule number two: Everything lasts forever.' Craig Ferguson

T4D: It's hard to build your soul when everyone around you is intent on selling theirs.

T4D: 'A man never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going.' Oliver Cromwell... the desire to eliminate uncertainty eliminates life.

T4D: #innovation 'If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.' David Livingstone

T4D: '...pick a research problem that is important, but one for which you have a secret weapon. Why? Because if the problem is important, others as intelligent as you will be trying to solve it; you need access to some knowledge or method the others do not have.' Herbert A. Simon

Moscow view that while in the past war started with an artillery barrage it now is starts with a disinformation offensive. #HISF2014