Bill Gates
Business Magnate, Philanthropist
"Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize in positive ways to help society."
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Drones
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Noam Chomsky
Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
"A drone strike is a terror weapon, we don't talk about it that way. It is; just imagine you are walking down the street and you don't know whether in 5 minutes there is going to be an explosion across the street from some place up in the sky that you can't see. Somebody will be killed, and whoever is around will be killed, maybe you'll be injured if you're there. That is a terror weapon. It terrorizes villages, regions, huge areas. It's the most massive terror campaign going on by a long shot."
Kanye West
Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
"What happens if a drone falls right next to her?"
Plato
Philosopher
"The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Novelist
"Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist -- or else it is nothing, an empty, formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations."
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"I'm a big advocate of drones."
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"On vague wording of drone strike criteria: “Are you going to just drop a hellfire missile on Jane Fonda? Are you going to drop a missile on Kent State? That’s gobbledygook."
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"The drones are a terrorist weapon, they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people."
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"In fact, it's doing it all over the world. Obama, first of all, is running the biggest terrorist operation that exists, maybe in history. The drone assassination campaigns, which are just part of it. All of these operations, they are terror operations."
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"whiskey makes the heart beat faster but it sure doesn't help the mind and isn't it funny how you can ache just from the deadly drone of existence?"
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"I’ve never argued against any technology being used when you have an imminent threat, an active crime going on. If someone comes out of a liquor store with a weapon and fifty dollars in cash, I don’t care if a drone kills him or a policeman kills him."
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"When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn't want to, because they had no pilots."
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"American citizens have been killed abroad by drones with no due process, no accountability, no judicial review."
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"If when you hear a song by OK Go you conjure up thoughts of a gigantic Rube Goldberg device or treadmills or drones or perfectly executed dance routines, then you know that this is a band that is masterful at coming up with amazingly creative music videos."
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"Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. Georgius Secundus was then alive,-- Snuffy old drone from the German hive."
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"Whatever question arose, a swarm of these drones, without having finished their buzzing on a previous theme, flew over to the new one and by their hum drowned and obscured the voices of those who were disputing honestly."
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"The worst terrorist crimes going on right now are the drone campaigns."
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