In the information economy, collaboration is the ultimate currency.
Amy Blankson
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AUTHOR UNKNOWN Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.
TOM CLANCY Information is the currency of democracy.
THOMAS JEFFERSON A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation.
ROSS PEROT Amy Pond: 'I thought... well, I started to think you were just a madman with a box.'
The Doctor...
STEVEN MOFFAT If we don't buy a billion iPads, three-hundred million people will die of starvation. That's how the...
JUSTIN ALBERT PECOT III I love you,' cooed Fake Amy. 'You dance so much better than the Doctor.'
'Silly.' Real Amy nudg...
JAMES GOSS On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING For the currency there is little reaction given that its strength is not dependent on the domestic e...
CLIFFORD BENNETT What better way to promote collaboration than bring together retailers and suppliers so they can sha...
JANE HOFFER The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew.
SOTONYE ANGA The Doctor: This is bad, I don't like this. [kicks console and yells in pain] Never use force, you j...
STEVEN MOFFAT Maybe the secret to happiness is simplicity.
AMY HARMON The New Zealand dollar remains a downward-trending currency. The downward direction is implied by gr...
ANTHONY BYETT I've lost the TARDIS as well.'
I [Amy] was outraged. Considering my husband was dying and we we...
JAMES GOSS There is no more precious currency than the unfettered liberty to explore while engaged in an "Idea ...
A.E. SAMAAN Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA We have ample law covering the world of goods. But we now live in an information economy where the v...
HOLLY TOWLE We ought therefore to suspect that a great mass of information respecting the Bible, and the introdu...
THOMAS PAINE The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE I think that the tying of the Montenegrin economy with the euro is a much better option than the adv...
IGOR LUKSIC Trust isn't just the greatest currency, it's the only currency. Once trust is gone in any form of cu...
RICHIE NORTON Stand-alone systems for messaging, communications and collaboration are quickly converging, while at...
IRWIN LAZAR Any information on advance bookings, with the economy and the overall uncertainty, is important,
TOM WOLZIEN We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH We live in an information and knowledge-based economy.
BOBBY SCOTT Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics,...
NAOMI WOLF Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaborat...
DON TAPSCOTT I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The Doctor: 'You know when grown-ups tell you everything's going to be fine, but you really think th...
STEVEN MOFFAT The river of knowledge has no depth.
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE He knows me better than anyone ever has. Than anyone ever will again. I would have stopped it if I c...
AMY ENGEL But...If my life on Earth must end, let it end with a promise.
Let it end with hope.
BETH REVIS He was... wearing a tasselled velvet nightcap that I [Amy] noticed the Doctor eyeing up. If Boris di...
JAMES GOSS So is this how it works Doctor? You never interfere with the affairs of other peoples or planets, un...
STEVEN MOFFAT There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr...
BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO In the land of light there is only one currency. The currency of love.
AMIT RAY The economy will continue to do pretty well, after the very strong figures we saw in the fourth quar...
LUCY BETHELL God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name."
BJ NELSON When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that wo...
RICK RIORDAN 'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by ...
NAOMI WOLF A number of organizations are already using Web GIS to create shared information and facilitate coll...
JACK DANGERMOND I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you...
TERENCE T. GORSKI He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
LOIS LOWRY American newspapers write about the information economy. In contrast, Europeans speak of an 'informa...
IAN ANGELL The purported will states, 'Attack them on the sea. Attack them on the land. Attack them everywhere....
PETER BERGEN That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere...
J.D. SALINGER Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever."
"Forever has no mea...
ELLEN HOPKINS A perfectly decent fellow may be driven by circumstances to commit a crime and if he's found out he'...
W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had ti...
WILLIAM FAULKNER I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al...
J.D. SALINGER “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey...
ANUJ SOMANY I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.
JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft...
ANUJ SOMANY When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f...
GARY F EVANS... It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits.
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people.
ANUJ SOMANY I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde...
GARY F EVANS... Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost.
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY The Buddha told him, "When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. Whe...
THICH NHAT HANH She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress...
SARAH JIO Tomorrow is tomorrow.
Future cares have future cures,
And we must mind today.
SOPHOCLES To him, even the momentary was momentous.
G.K. CHESTERTON You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the...
JAN GLIDEWELL I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see.
KARINA HALLE I know,” said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. �...
NEIL GAIMAN Dedication is the preparation to success!
WERNER BOTHA Preliminary information that we have is that there was a failure of the sea wall, and that caused a ...
ED MCLAUGHLIN If you factor in a slowing economy the number would be larger. The ultimate decider of whether you c...
EDWARD LEAMER Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
GEORGE A. MOORE To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r...
MANDY HALE Now i know what it feels like being Ryan Bingham
ARIEL SERAPHINO To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ...
CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro...
GARY F EVANS... Oh, and I [Amy] may also have told him that I quite fancied Dr Smith [The Doctor]. Which in the 1780...
JAMES GOSS Maria looked at the TARDIS... 'Is that really your carriage?' She asked. 'It is not very good, monsi...
JAMES GOSS Rory's not my pet dog!' I [Amy] yelled at the Doctor.
'Well, that would be better.' He was trul...
JAMES GOSS [The Doctor] pulled the thing out of Prince Boris's mouth, waving it around. 'Oh. Blimey. This is no...
JAMES GOSS Well, what do you want me to say?' The Doctor was so angry he was almost hovering. 'Well done on mar...
JAMES GOSS Are you happy, Ivy?' he asks, surprising me.
In my whole life, I don't think anyone ever asked ...
AMY ENGEL The dream as conceived 25 years ago has not been achieved. Until software becomes the ultimate tool ...
LARRY PAGE 'Amy' is somewhere in the middle of authorized and unauthorized.
ASIF KAPADIA The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Enlightenment is living in the light of cosmic collaboration. Collaboration gives us the freedom to ...
AMIT RAY Otherwise a spend-prone fiscal policy teamed with a pro-growth monetary policy could be problematic ...
DAVID GILMORE The ultimate responsible party for what's on that tax return is you. You're signing it, you're respo...
BILL STEINER Wireless offers a way ... for them to immediately jump into the new world in terms of the informatio...
GREG RALEIGH Even the government understands that the environmental challenge is so big that no single agency can...
MA JUN In an information age, in a technology-based global economy, we must have the most productive and be...
JOHN HOEVEN He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars.
JOHN GREEN The most valuable currency in life is passion.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
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AMY SEDARIS I like to decide the night before Thanksgiving that I'm gonna do it, and I'll see what riff ...
AMY SEDARIS We're all used to seeing pretty people. I want to see real people.
AMY SEDARIS My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea m...
AMY SEDARIS I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life.
AMY SEDARIS I got this second chance at life, and I live it.
AMY PURDY Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and the...
AMY BLOOM People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Na...
AMY BLOOM I love cooking during Christmas, all smells like the hot apple cider, the hot spiced wine.
AMY SMART I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are r...
AMY POEHLER I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's ...
AMY WALDMAN And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant...
AMY TAN I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting cl...
AMY HEMPEL My youngest sister, Cindy, has Down syndrome, and I remember my mother spending hours and hours with...
AMY CHUA I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. An...
AMY ADAMS Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No.
AMY GRANT My dad is dead. And as I type this, by the window, on the rainy day, I am alive, yes. I am living. B...
AMY FUSSELMAN