Jack Levin quotes

Building prisons to fight crime is like building cemeteries to fight disease.
-- Jack Levin

#Fighting #Disease #Prison

Gossip, then, is content, a message about people; rumor is a process. It takes a bit of gossip and reshapes it, modifies it in some way, and passes it along from individual to individual in different ways.
-- Jack Levin

#People #Gossip #Rumor

Bigotry and hatred and prejudice rise and fall depending on certain situations.
-- Jack Levin

#Fall #Hatred #Prejudice

I think healthy competition is good for business, and really at the end best for end-users. Just think about what Android would have been if it was not for iPhone - a better blackberry?
-- Jack Levin

#Thinking #Iphone #Competition

I am fairly average in my expenses as a person in a technical line/CEO of work.
-- Jack Levin

#Average #Lines #Ceo

Is there a chance? A fragment of light at the end of the tunnel? A reason to fight? Is there a chance you may change your mind? Or are we ashes and wine?

Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.

Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.

What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.

If I had a life with Woods to look forward to I knew I could fight whatever darkness that tried to take me. Before Woods, I didnt know what I was living for. In my search to find myself, Id found so much more. I knew now why I wanted to live. I understood love. I had found it.

We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their sense of coherence (i.e. sense that life is comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful) and ability to function in the face of changes in themselves and their relationships with their environment.

There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time

Being a foreigner is not a disease.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

We have no political prisons. We have political internal exiles.