Gold Coast Votes

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning." [Einstein]

"When money speaks, the truth is silent." [Russian proverb]

"There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult." [Warren Buffett]

"Poor is the pupil that does not surpass his master." [Leonardo da Vinci]

"Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful." [John Maeda, US designer and technologist, b. 1966]

What are our aims at Gold Coast Votes? See https://goldcoastvotes.org/

"Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means." [Koichi Kawana]

Water used to make one pair of blue jeans: 10,977 liters.

Skills Needed to Survive the Robot Invasion https://www.visualcapitalist.com/skills-needed-survive-robot-workplace/

Safest Source of Energy https://www.visualcapitalist.com/worlds-safest-source-energy/

U.S. Energy Consumption in One Chart https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-u-s-energy-consumption-one-chart/ (68% is wasted in inefficiencies)

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Amount of water required to make 1 kg of beef steak: 15,500 liters

The cigarette companies now target women, children and under-developed countries for new customers.

World population is increasing by about 1.2% each year, down from the late 1960s peak of 2.1%

"Quotennial" means yearly, from Latin quot (how many) + annus (year).

The relationship between money and happiness per country https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/money-happiness-large.html (data visualization)

Who did Fadden, Moncrieff and McPherson electorates vote for in recent elections, and the Voice referendum? See this data viz. https://goldcoastvotes.org/voting/how-gold-coast-voted/

"If you can't convince them, confuse them." [Harry S. Truman]

"Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet." [Robert Schuller, US televangelist, pastor and motivational speaker, 1926-2015]

"Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers." [Josef Albers]

"Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another." [John Dewey, US philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, 1859-1952]

Clearly stated instructions will consistently produce multiple interpretations. [a Boyle's Law]

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Old age is always fifteen years older than I am. [Baruch's Rule for Determining Old Age]

There are two types of people: those who divide people into two types, and those who don't. [Barth's Distinction]

"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination." [John Dewey, US philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, 1859-1952]

"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." [Theodore Roosevelt]

"Between truth and the search for truth, I opt for the second." [Bernard Berenson]

Gold Coast Votes is a community group which aims to strengthen democracy by listening to the people https://goldcoastvotes.org/

"I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed." [Michael Jordan]

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail." [Ralph Waldo Emerson]

"Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful." [Zig Ziglar]

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." [Zig Ziglar]

"Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher." [Japanese proverb]

How does preferential voting work? Here's a data visualisation using recent elections that demonstrates the process. It shows Fadden, Moncrieff and McPherson electorates. https://goldcoastvotes.org/voting/preferential-voting/

"A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions." [Confucius]

"Computers are like Old Testament gods: lots of rules and no mercy." [Joseph Campbell, 1904-1987, philosopher and teacher]

"Since January, almost 900,000 hectares have been burned Indonesia-wide in the worst fire season in more than a decade ... For months, millions of Indonesians have been subject to thick smoke and an apocalyptic tangerine haze ... Air quality has also plummeted in neighbouring countries..."

"Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss." [F. Scott Fitzgerald]

"If it's important to you, you will find a way. If not, you'll find an excuse." [Jim Rohn]

"The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it." [John Locke, philosopher 1632-1704]

What are our aims at Gold Coast Votes? See https://goldcoastvotes.org/

"The most powerful method of improving education is to invest in the improvement of teaching & the status of great teachers." [Ken Robinson, British author, speaker and international advisor on education, b. 1950]

"So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs." [Wilcox]

"To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age." [Isaac Newton]

"It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated." [Alec Bourne]

"The second most important job in the world, second only to being a good parent, is being a good teacher." [S.G. Ellis]

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Over at @getup.org.au ‘s Instagram to see the full AI Deep Fake — here’s the side by side: