Nick Begich quotes

Nick Begich quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Technologies for stimulating the brain and controlling the mind can have benefits, but they have a dark side that military and intelligence planners have been exploiting for decades”
-- Nick Begich

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“Everyone has issues they are passionate about, they care about. Step up, do something that you know absolutely you can achieve. We each have a sphere of influence. It may be just our family and a few close friends, or it might be the reach into government. Exercise what you can do, not what you can't do. Recognize there are millions of others doing the same. Act on things you know to be right and true.”
-- Nick Begich

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“I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.”

Source : Quoted in James Charlton, The Military Quotation Book (1990)
“Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.”
“Yeah, September 11 happened and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.”

Source : "Adam Driver, boy among girls". Interview with Keely Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 13, 2012.
“Think of negative speech as verbal pollution. And that's what I've been doing: visualizing insults and gossip as a dark cloud, maybe one with some sulfur dioxide. Once you've belched it out, you can't take it back. As grandma said, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. The interesting this is, the less often I vocalize my negative thoughts, the fewer negative thoughts I cook up in the first place.”
“I love love stories, no matter how dark.”
“The light, the sky, the water, they were all things you looked *through* during the day. At night, they were things you looked *into*. You looked *into* the stars, you looked *into* dark rollers and the surprising platinum flash of their caps.”

Source : Adam Johnson (2012). “The Orphan Master's Son”, p.41, Random House
“An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data, we have an opportunity, and maybe even an obligation, to maintain [our] humanity and tell some amazing stories.”
“The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.”
“Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.”

Source : "Stars Rise at Startup Summer Camp" by Ryan Singel, www.wired.com. September 13, 2005.
“It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.”

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