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Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.


Daniel Tammet

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DANIEL ELLSBERG President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several tim...
DANIEL ELLSBERG Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanis...
DANIEL ELLSBERG Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vie...
DANIEL ELLSBERG If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
DANIEL ELLSBERG Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be beli...
DANIEL ELLSBERG My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, an...
DANIEL ELLSBERG We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.
DANIEL ELLSBERG There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.
DANIEL ELLSBERG There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millio...
DANIEL ELLSBERG Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers tha...
DANIEL ELLSBERG In general, people are comfortable sharing their music. There are two exceptions, though - Lady Gaga...
DANIEL EK This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Brun...
DANIEL EK The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want...
DANIEL EK Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that...
DANIEL EK I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much c...
DANIEL EK In order for a service to be social, you've really got to start from the ground up. The fact tha...
DANIEL EK With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
DANIEL EK People just want to have access to all of the world's music.
DANIEL EK There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal...
DANIEL EK I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.
DANIEL EK It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening t...
DANIEL EK At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your ...
DANIEL EK I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a w...
DANIEL EK With Twitter and other social networking tools, you can get a lot of advice from great people. I lea...
DANIEL EK I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.
DANIEL EK Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
DANIEL EK At the end of the day, I want the music industry to be larger than what it is today.
DANIEL EK He who sells what isn't his'n, Must buy it back or go to prison.
DANIEL DREW