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Karla Carter

Geek prof teaching IT Ethics and other stuff.

How to Cultivate Mindfulness & the Meditation Habit. Data mining Books. Data mining. Internet Privacy & Security. Computer Ethics. Humanoid Robots. GPS. Google Tips, Tricks & Hacks. Notable Quotables. Letters appended.

Notable Quotables

Sherlock Holmes never said “Elementary, my dear Watson.” Neither Ingrid Bergman nor anyone else in “Casablanca” says “Play it again, Sam”; Leo Durocher did not say “Nice guys finish last”; Vince Lombardi did say “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing” quite often, but he got the line from someone else. Anatomy of a Fake Quotation. Yesterday, I saw a quote from Martin Luther King Jr. fly across my Twitter feed: "I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy.

Anatomy of a Fake Quotation

" - Martin Luther King, Jr". I was about to retweet it, but I hesitated. It didn't sound right. After some Googling, I determined that it was probably fake, which I wrote about last night. Here's the story of how that quote was created. Ethical Use in the 21st Century. Teaching Ethical and Legal use of Technology in the Classroom.

Irrational behavior Duke University Dan Ariely.