“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. <br class="br">2016, “Much more than periodic voting” – UN Independent Expert calls for more direct democracy worldwide
“Reliable and transparent programs are usually not in the interest of the designer.”
Niklaus Wirth (1934) Swiss computer scientist
Niklaus Wirth (1999) " A Digital Contrarian Retires http://www.modulaware.com/mdlt/mdlt79.htm". Beat Gerber eds., June 1999.
William McDougall (1871–1938) british psychologist
Hypnotism (1945) by Axel Wayne Bacon. In the Preface to the 1960 edition, Nelson-Hall Co., Publishers
Karl Kautsky (1854–1938) Czech-Austrian philosopher, journalist, and Marxist theoretician
Chap. V, The Period of Dictatorship <br class="br">"Hitlerism and Social Democracy" (1934) https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1934/hitler/index.htm
George Stigler (1911–1991) American economist
"George J. Stigler - Biographical," 1982
“The most reliable components are the ones you leave out.”
Gordon Bell (1934) American computer engineer
Reported in Stuart Borlase, ed., Smart Grids: Infrastructure, Technology, and Solutions (2013), p. 445.
Julian Assange (1971) Australian editor, activist, publisher and journalist
[Julian Assange Interviewed by John Pilger, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGUq0kYV-8Q]
Frank Dobbin (1956) American sociologist
Frank Dobbin (1994), "Organizational Models of Culture: The social construction of rational organizing principles," in: Diana Crane (ed) The Sociology of Culture: Emerging theoretical perspectives. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 138; As cited in: Kieran Healy (1998)
“One of the rarest and most prestigious qualities of a person is his transparency.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Una delle qualità più rare e prestigiose di una persona è la sua trasparenza.
Source: prevale.net
Iain Banks book Consider Phlebas
Source: Culture series, Consider Phlebas (1987), Chapter 4 “Temple of Light” (p. 96).
Melania Trump (1970) Slovenian model, wife of Donald Trump and First Lady of the United States
via tweet https://twitter.com/FLOTUS/status/1325509832594616328 On November 8, 2020 <br class="br">2020
