Reported in Stuart Borlase, ed., Smart Grids: Infrastructure, Technology, and Solutions (2013), p. 445.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Much more than periodic voting” – UN Independent Expert calls for more direct democracy worldwide http://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=20482&LangID=E.
2016, “Much more than periodic voting” – UN Independent Expert calls for more direct democracy worldwide
Source: The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
“The most real and reliable quality of knowledge, is experience.”
Original: (it) La più reale ed affidabile qualità di conoscenza, è l'esperienza.
Source: prevale.net
Monsters Under the Bed http://www.unfetteredmind.org/monsters-under-the-bed-retreat-1#sect14. Unfettered Mind http://unfetteredmind.org. (2010-10-10) (Topic: Practice)
The Emperor's Old Clothes
Context: [About PL/I] At first I hoped that such a technically unsound project would collapse but I soon realized it was doomed to success. Almost anything in software can be implemented, sold, and even used given enough determination. There is nothing a mere scientist can say that will stand against the flood of a hundred million dollars. But there is one quality that cannot be purchased in this way — and that is reliability. The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay.
“The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!”
Source: Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing
