To be creative, people need intellectual usability. To get intellectual usability, people need more rights through present copyright law. To get those rights, people need Freedom.
-- Taran Rampersad
I believe in Free Software but until I become so rich that it's offensive, I won't be too much of a *software philanthropist*. The pay sucks, the hours are long, coffee isn't 'free as in beer' and my creditors don't know what philanthropy means. So I charge for Free Software. I suppose some may think me evil, but I'm not looking for sainthood.
-- Taran Rampersad
Individual strength can only exist within a weak group; group strength is the synergistic property of complementary individual strengths.
-- Taran Rampersad
The problem of average writers is that they express themselves at a level higher than the reading comprehension of themselves and, most of the time, the audience.
-- Taran Rampersad
At what point does tolerance start?
-- Taran Rampersad
"It's amazing how difficult it is to find someone to pass it along to, and say, look this is what we're trying to do and everything like that,"says Mr Rampersad. "So the big problem right now is the same problem we're trying to solve - human communication."
-- Taran Rampersad
Knowledge is the cornerstone of this world, and the future of our world. Maybe we should try to improve upon systems regarding knowledge instead of attempting to debase them. If it's not perfect, make it better.
-- Taran Rampersad
So while we speak of accuracy, we have to consider: How does one measure accuracy? When we speak of reliability, we must consider: How does one measure reliability? With guns and equipment, accuracy and reliability have been made to be common terms, common ways of discussing things - but when it comes to knowledge, these terms cannot be used in the same manner because there is no absolute truth to measure by.
-- Taran Rampersad
Every truth we hold dear is based on previous truths, proven or debased. Every theory is another manner of trying to hold the world together within our minds. So how can we sensibly discuss accuracy and reliability when we have no way of measuring; how can we compare the accuracy and reliability of two separate systems when we don't know how accurate or reliable either one is?
-- Taran Rampersad
Make no mistake, the sharing of human knowledge has ever been a problem to be solved, and after reorganizing as much as possible, allowing as many people into the publishing system as possible - the faults within the system still limit it.
-- Taran Rampersad
We can all be the shoulders of these giants for future generations. We talk about ecology, we talk about pollution, we talk about many things and try to leave the world a better place for future generations - or at least pay lip service. Perhaps we could do that with human knowledge as well, by trying to do it better. Perhaps it's our responsibility to do that.
-- Taran Rampersad
They didn't ask how they could help; instead they were already deciding what they would do. That could be seen as arrogance. If I think your yard looks too plain and I come over and start digging holes for planting trees in your yard, and so on, the act itself isn't necessarily arrogant: The thought that I believe I know better what to do with your yard than you do is arrogance.
-- Taran Rampersad
The hype of professional blogging is largely overdone by bloggers who already have their bread buttered.
-- Taran Rampersad
I disagree with the UN terms of Global North and Global South, and Third World and First World, and developing nations and developed nations. Within such narrow confines of meaning, even an agouti would be pressed to find meaning in life.
-- Taran Rampersad
Adults suck. Never grow up.
-- Taran Rampersad
Issues of Digital Divide are as much of a factor as the dominant cultural trends within SecondLife itself, but as more people come online - more people will enter virtual worlds. And as more people enter virtual worlds, the virtual economies could become less geopolitically dependant and conversely have more geopolitical effect. Is that not globalization?
-- Taran Rampersad
There is a big part of me which detests all the asynchronous communications which don't allow for intelligent capture of information for use in later forms where it can be sifted, and the noise removed so that the signal remains. But we humans communicate in many different layers... and that may pose the strongest challenge to these new technologies. Extracting the right layers at the right times is what humans are good at - but under these conditions, how good will we be at it?
-- Taran Rampersad
I would tell people to invest in themselves first. People never get rich investing in other people.
-- Taran Rampersad
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