(129 quotes found)
“If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in their predicament? Or are basic rights of human existence confined to the civilized societies that are wealthy enough to afford them? Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others.”
William Greider
“At the Web 2.0 Conference a year ago, we gathered to discuss the implications of the Web becoming a platform. This year, we're taking it further, focusing not just on declaring the platform, but showing where the innovation is happening and what we might expect in the coming year, ... Web 2.0 attendees will be immediately plugged into the ecosystem of the new Internet and allowed to make connections vital to their business strategy.”
John Battelle
“The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.”
Anatole Broyard
“Saturday's game is important for several reasons. It is the last regular-season game, and it not only has implications for us but it impacts other teams.”
Anne Donovan
“This high degree of organization of prokaryotic genomes is a complete surprise, and this finding carried many implications that biologists might not have considered before. These findings show that evolution of prokaryotes [organisms that lack nuclei] is constrained not just by variations in the content of genes, but also by the intricate ways in which those genes are arranged on chromosomes.”
Bernhard Palsson
“But the near-term implications don't look that meaningful.”
Brent Bracelin
“This outbreak has potentially catastrophic implications for the whole of the British livestock industry.”
Ben Gill
“We're paying close attention because of the First Amendment implications and [we] may be prepared to criticize legislation that restricts people's lawful right to express ideas, as distasteful as they may be.”
Caroline Fredrickson
“The U.S. case is more important because of the economic implications. It (the U.K. ruling) is a nice psychological boost but you can't extrapolate the U.S. ruling from this because of the different legal standards.”
Catherine Arnold
“The U.S. case is more important because of the economic implications, ... It [the U.K. ruling] is a nice psychological boost but you can't extrapolate the U.S. ruling from this because of the different legal standards.”
