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It's our version of Christian guilt--it's impious to feel good about your piety. You have to want to be good, but not feel good about how good you are. The
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we're problems to be solved, not citizens. That's why you never hear politicians talking about 'citizens,' it's all 'taxpayers,' as though the salient fact of your relationship to the state is how much you pay.
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The merc was more than a person: like a spaceship launch, her existence implied thousands of skilled people, generations of experts, wars, treaties, scholarship, and supply-chain management. Every one of them was all that.
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Cory Doctorow hat dieses Werk unter der Creative-Commons-Lizenz(CC-BY-NC-SA) veroffentlicht die es jedermann erlaubt, das Werk frei zu verbreiten und zu bearbeiten ... (siehe wikipedia "little brother", dort auch Links zu den ebooks der Ubersetzung) Unter Nutzung dieser Lizenz hat Christian Wohrl eine deutsche Ubersetzung des Romans angefertigt. Aus dieser ist ein Fanhorbuchprojekt entstanden. ... hier meine Zitate aus Readmill: Ich hatte ..
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He's a sucking chest wound of a human being. But if you're going to have a jailer, better a clueless one than one who's really on the ball.
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Look, there are as many walkaway philosophies as there are walkaways, but mine is, 'the stories you tell come true.' If you believe everyone is untrustworthy, you'll build that into your systems so that even the best people have to act like the worst people to get anything done. If you assume people are okay, you live a much happier life.
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In theory, we're selfish assholes who want more than our neighbors, can't be happy with a lot if someone else has a lot more.
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That's what made the panics about huge zero-day security ruptures such a fright: the sudden knowledge that everything might have been auto-pwned by a random crim or asshole who used a skin-detection algorithm to catch you masturbating, keywords to flag your embarrassing conversations, harvesting your biometrics for playback attacks on your finances and social nets.
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If you wanted your bug fixed, you should really check it in depth.
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There are lots of ways to be superhuman. You can trick others into thinking that unless they do what you tell them, they won't eat. You can cajole people into doing what you want by making them fear god or the cops, or making them feel guilty or angry. "The best way to be superhuman is to do things that you love with other people who love them, too. The only way to do that is to admit you're doing it because you love it and if you do more t..
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There was a whole subculture of mentalists who spent their nights breaking into boarded-up tube stations, forgotten sewers, abandoned buildings, and other places you just aren't meant to be.
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Seth was a portable, external id. Not always comfortable or appropriate, but handy nevertheless.
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If a paycheck could change your life, do you think they'd let you have one?
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What they are is hopeful.
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The you that is you is actually the space of things that you might think in response to some stimulus.
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No, I mean I'm sorry that you've inherited such a miserable, collapsing Old Country. A place where rich Bankers own everything, where you've got to be grateful for a part-time job with no benefits and no retirement plan, where the most health insurance you can afford is being careful and hoping you don't get sick, where --
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In short: if I'm wrong, I promise that I'll be wrong in a well-informed and interesting way.
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A 'job creator' is someone who figures out how to threaten you with starvation unless you do something you don't want to do.
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Ten thousand years ago, the state-of-the-art was a goat.
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That's the walkaway dilemma. If you take without giving, you're a mooch. If you keep track of everyone else's taking and giving, you're a creep scorekeeper. It's our version of Christian guilt--it's impious to feel good about your piety. You have to want to be good, but not feel good about how good you are. The worst thing is to be worrying about what someone else is doing, because that has nothing to do with whether you're doing right.
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She was in the zone, a human copressor for a complex system that used machines as a nervous system to wire together the intelligence of a global crowd of people she loved with all her heart.
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But beautiful was not the opposite of terrible. The two could easily coexist.
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You want a burrito?" I asked. "Is that a question or a statement of the obvious?" "Neither. It's an order."
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Work needed doing, and he could help. What more could anyone ask for?
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You're going to hate to hear this, but you're too young to get it. Anything invented before you were eighteen was there all along. Anything invented before you're thirty is exciting and will change the world forever. Anything invented after that is an abomination and should be banned. You don't remember what life was like twenty years ago, before walkaways. You don't understand how different things are, so you think things don't change that..
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living people can sometimes change their situations, while dead ones can't change a fucking thing.
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My nose itched. I tried to ignore it, but it got worse and worse, until it was all I could think of, the flaming lance of itch that strobed at the tip of my nostril. Furiously, I wrinkled my face, rattled at my restraints. The doc absentmindedly noticed my gyrations and delicately scratched my nose with a gloved finger. The relief was fantastic. I just hoped my nuts didn't start itching anytime soon.
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Bless the wooly alt. hierarchy and all those who sail in her.
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We are all worth something,' she said. 'Zottas are not worth more than the rest of us. Self-Deception makes us into monsters. Selfishness is an excuse to busy your empathy. People are basically good. Live as though it was the first days of a better [nation].
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the American worker's enemy isn't the Mexican worker, it's the auto manufacturer who screws both of them.
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That's the tragedy of the commons? A fairy tale about giving public assets to rich people to run as personal empires because that way they'll make sure they're better managed than they would be if we just made up some rules?
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After all, wasn't the system the problem? No matter who we voted for, the government always seemed to win. What was the point of living out my little fantasy of democratic change and Justice when the real action was being fought out in secrecy, with Anonymous envelopes of cash, encrypted Whispers, secret bunkers, and secret deals?
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If you want, you can make him seem erratic and unreliable so they get rid of him. You can manufacture crises that might make one side or the other reveal the identities of other spies. In short, you own them. This is called the man-in-the-middle attack and if you think about it, it's pretty scary. Someone who man-in-the-middles your communications can trick you in any of a thousand ways. No man, I don't get scared. I'm always scared.
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It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making.
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Existence proofs always trump theory. That's engineering.
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He was a pushy, self-righteous prig, but that didn't mean he was wrong. Necessarily.
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Things are true or they aren't, no matter how old the person saying them happens to be.
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Doesn't matter how old the speaker is, it's the words that matter.
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They just hated and feared us because our government hated and feared them.
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Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
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All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.
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No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.
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It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.
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Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time rich and cash poor.
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