Quotes About Control

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Nowadays they say you need to get a special chip to put in the TV so kids can't watch this and that. In my day, we didn't need a chip. My mom was the chip. End of story.

You are the jailer and the jailed, You the impaler and the one that your own Million-fleshed self in dreams by night do hold in thrall and now at noon must kill.

We are being propelled into this new century with no plan, no control, no brakes…. The only realistic alternative I see is relinquishment: to limit development of the technologies that are too dangerous, by limiting our pursuit of certain kinds of knowledge. —BILL JOY, "WHY THE FUTURE DOESN'T NEED US

It was not Boris Yeltsin standing on a tank that overturned the 1991 coup against Mikhail Gorbachev, but rather the clandestine network of fax machines, photocopiers, video recorders, and personal computers that broke decades of totalitarian control of information

Here then are the choices we all face moment by moment: Will we aim to be impressive? Will we expect to be in complete control? Will we ensure that we always come out on top as winners? Or will we be happy for the power of Christ to rest upon us in our endless weakness? 'No man can give at once the impressions that he himself is clever and that Jesus Christ is mighty to save.' Neither can any church.

Historically, the Western Abenakis opposed all English-speaking Europeans. Their homeland—present-day Vermont, New Hampshire, and southern Quebec—lay between areas of English and French control.

Goto, n.: A programming tool that exists to allow structured programmers to complain about unstructured programmers.

And in this world, Cain's purpose succeeds. The rest of the Bible tells the story of the offspring of the Serpent dominating human affairs, as insecure fugitives gather together, convinced that this world they control is all that matters. They

There are only two surefire ways to get people to do what you want them to do. You either put on an iron glove and make them do it. Or you tell them God wants them to do it.

But the winners chose what we should believe in. They chose which writings were sacred and which ones were 'heretical.

We're still dancing to tunes created by men who thought that a thunderstorm was a sig of God's anger.

Inspiration which consists in blind obedience to every impulse is in reality a sort of slavery.

The extent of neuromanic imperialism is astounding.

At the conventional level, the precept of no intoxicants is understood as encouraging us to control our behavior by not using addictive substances to manipulate our state of being. Ironically, using individual effort to try to control our behavior is itself a violation of the ultimate meaning of the precept, because it is akin to manipulating our experience.

If we don't understand our tools, then there is a danger we will become the tool of our tools. We think of ourselves as Google's customers, but really we're its products.

Devi imparare a controllare meglio le tue passioni, tesoro mio, e a custodire gli affanni nel segreto del tuo cuore.

These things I believe: that government should butt out.

It's a lot easier to let someone else be Caesar.

Once that cage shuts, I'm the one in control of my destiny.

Nobody should eat too much cake.

I am anal about my Gmail calendar. It's my life. I put everything in there - my to-do list, or even if I want to do things.

Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best.