You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first. Malcolm Gladwell facebookhistoryjob share on social
All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars. Banksy dissentextragraffito Change image and share on social
If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over to the FBI and other organizations at the request of President Roosevelt, and that's how the Japanese were rounded up and put into the internment camps. Michele Bachmann americanbureaucamp share on social
The Internet makes it possible for people like me to live the way I do now. Without it, I'd have to be in New York or some other city. I think the Internet is the greatest invention in history after antibiotics. Jane Haddam antibioticcitygreat share on social
I was a big history buff as a teenager. Cary Fukunaga bigbuffhistory Change image and share on social
I believe black characters in fiction are still revolutionary, given our long history of erasure. Tananarive Due blackcharactererasure Change image and share on social
'Upstream Color' in particular, it's got to infect culture at some level in order to have a life of its own. Then it'll be judged, and it'll either live or it won't by its own merit, and history will decide whether it's relevant however long into the future. I think that's more than enough to hope for. Shane Carruth colorculturedecide share on social
I don't concentrate on any one period of history; I like to locate my stories in wildly different eras and places. I seem to be drawn to large, sprawling, uncomfortable swaths of American history, finding embedded within them a tight narrative that involves strife, heroism, and survival under difficult circumstances. Hampton Sides americancircumstanceconcentrate share on social
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. Mark Twain fluidhistoryink Change image and share on social
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. Margaret Mead censorelderhistory Change image and share on social