QUOTE A DAY - June 21, 2012

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*---- Quotes For The Week ----*
For all the hype, behavioral targeting has such limited utility that one can only shake one's head in bewildered disbelief at its growing acceptance. The army of mathematicians that once were lionized on Wall Street has invaded Madison Avenue. Computational finance wizards now seek to become computational marketing mavens.
-Jaffer Ali, 'Behavioral Targeting, Putting Lipstick on a Pig'

We will leave for another time how it is even conceivable that our loss of freedom, our slavery, becomes suddenly ethical if we opt to wear the chains that keep us enslaved. Until then it is necessary for us to open the debate to the light of day as to whether the very act of digital stalking threatens, indeed violates our dignity.
--Jaffer Ali, from 'Big Brother's Brother'

If we are the sum total of our thoughts and deeds, we must become more deliberate with our time, the only personal asset that we can control. We must connect with those who also cherish thought, time and connection.
--Jaffer Ali, from 'Chasing String in the Digital Era'


**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
Force does not constitute right...obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

See at the bottom for the answer

*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
But I have come to the conclusion that the purveyors of voodoo behaviorism are neither snake oil salesmen, nor charlatans, merely intellectual simpletons. And while this may not score me many points at the next cocktail party, there is a little more charity, and clarity in my heart.
-Jaffer Ali, 'Can Marketers Really Predict Human Behavior?'

But there is a different, stronger kind of faith. It's a faith in ourselves that dwells within each of us. This is where our dreams come to be nurtured.
--Jaffer Ali, from 'Dreams of the Heart'


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

Force does not constitute right...obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

ANSWER: Rousseau

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