Carmen Ortiz quotes

Carmen Ortiz quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Stealing is stealing, whether you use a computer command or a crowbar, and whether you take documents, data or dollars.”
-- Carmen Ortiz

Source : "Reddit co-founder accused of stealing 4.8m JSTOR documents from MIT" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2011.

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“The distinction between right and wrong ("la distinction du bien et du mal", Fr.), is nothing else than their unyielding (or implacable) opposition; thus the moral consciousness is an innate and intimate revelation of the absolute, which goes beyond (or goes pass, or exceed) every empirical data (or given information). It is only on these principles that we will be able to establish ("pourront Ãªtre Ã©difiÃ©es", Fr.) the real basis of morality.”

Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 60), 1937.
“Pulling the plug on the BlackBerry could cost corporate America millions of dollars. The BlackBerry is more than e-mail but a handheld office, and if you shut down the BlackBerry, you shut off the data that powers American business.”
“A ten per cent reduction in military expenditures per year would be reasonable, coupled with a programme of retraining the workforce and redirecting the resources in a manner that creates employment and advances social welfare. I also encourage all States to contribute to the UN's annual Report on Military Expenditures by submitting complete data on national defence budgets.”

Source : "UN Expert Urges States to Cut Military Spending and Invest More in Human Development". www.ohchr.org. April 14, 2014.
“Scientists learn about the world in three ways: They analyze statistical patterns in the data, they do experiments, and they learn from the data and ideas of other scientists. The recent studies show that children also learn in these ways.”

Source : "We All Start Out As Scientists, But Some of Us Forget" by Chris Mooney, Indre Viskontas, www.motherjones.com. November 8, 2013.
“It is not a medicine. You don't know what's in it. If there were compelling scientific and medical data supporting marijuana's medical benefits that would be one thing. But the data is not there.”
“...the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia apparently cherry-picked Russian climate data.”
“For me to be a billion-dollar author, I need to have people buying my books at Wal-Mart.”
“The boom was healthy too, even with its excesses. Because what this incredible valuation craze did was draw untold sums of billions of dollars into building the Internet infrastructure. The hundreds of billions of dollars that got invested in telecommunications, for example.”
“If had a penny for every strange look I've gotten from strangers on the street I'd have about 10 to 15 dollars, which is a lot when you're dealing with pennies.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.”

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