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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cd6c5c3 | Here sits the Unicorn;Still bleed | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| d61a9a7 | I'm suspicious of any plan to fix unfairness that starts with 'step one, dismantle the entire system and replace it with a better one,' especially if you can't do anything else until step one is done. Of all the ways that people kid themselves into doing nothing, that one is the most self-serving. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 2218535 | It gave you ironic distance--a very now kind of high. Conspiracy | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 6919c5e | And all the way, to guide their chime,With falling oars they kept the time. | Andrew Marvell | ||
| ea90924 | End of the day, anything that made you discount objective reality and assign a premium to some kind of internal mental state was going to be both pro-survival and pro-status-quo. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 07639a7 | Here sits the Unicorn -- In repose. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | ||
| 989a846 | Makes me want to tweak reality's gamma slider. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 877973c | 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 | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 6ecaa13 | Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. | Andrew S. Tanenbaum | ||
| e5a2baf | The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from. | Andrew S. Tanenbaum | ||
| ffdc50c | 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. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| b008de6 | home videogame consoles had already made most coin-op games obsolete. After the OASIS went online, they stopped making | Ernest Cline | ||
| 66f8e7e | He" should be read as "he or she" throughout the book. | Andrew S. Tanenbaum | ||
| a794d8b | I really am not angry with Linus. Honest. He's not angry with me either. | Andrew S. Tanenbaum | ||
| c7ce34d | A New Campus: Interviews with Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Ann Bowers. Steve Jobs, appearance before the Cupertino City Council, June 7, 2011. CHAPTER 41: ROUND THREE Family Ties: Interviews with Laurene Powell, Erin Jobs, Steve Jobs, Kathryn Smith, Jennifer Egan. Email from Steve Jobs, June 8, 2010, 4:55 p.m.; Tina Redse to Steve Jobs, July 20, 2010, and Feb. 6, 2011. President Obama: Interviews with David Axelrod, Steve Jobs, John Doerr, La.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| 609d34d | What they are is hopeful. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 5bd11dd | The you that is you is actually the space of things that you might think in response to some stimulus. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| c532e6f | 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 -- | insurance truth world | Cory Doctorow | |
| 78143ef | In short: if I'm wrong, I promise that I'll be wrong in a well-informed and interesting way. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 868d920 | Cory Doctorow's matchless description of the internet as 'an ecosystem of interruption technologies'. | Sam Leith | ||
| 1d73a5a | A 'job creator' is someone who figures out how to threaten you with starvation unless you do something you don't want to do. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 452d00d | Ten thousand years ago, the state-of-the-art was a goat. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 64da72c | 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. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 0bfdc96 | 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. | futurism utopias | Cory Doctorow | |
| 175b092 | But beautiful was not the opposite of terrible. The two could easily coexist. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 3c4855f | You want a burrito?" I asked. "Is that a question or a statement of the obvious?" "Neither. It's an order." | Cory Doctorow | ||
| e40ca66 | Work needed doing, and he could help. What more could anyone ask for? | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 5b83afa | 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.. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 466296c | living people can sometimes change their situations, while dead ones can't change a fucking thing. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 2261667 | Conversation is king; content is just something to talk about. --Cory Doctorow | Brad Williams | ||
| 7ad7fbf | 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. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 17508d6 | Bless the wooly alt. hierarchy and all those who sail in her. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 899cdba | 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]. | self-deception selfishness | Cory Doctorow | |
| 55f9053 | the American worker's enemy isn't the Mexican worker, it's the auto manufacturer who screws both of them. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| e7b97ca | 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? | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 0e73410 | 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? | goverment justice | Cory Doctorow | |
| 7a5789c | 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. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 0caa8a4 | Getting outside is highly overrated. | Ernest Cline | ||
| 6cf32d7 | LINUX is obsolete. | Andrew S. Tanenbaum | ||
| d0b12da | A multithreaded file system is only a performance hack. | Andrew S. Tanenbaum | ||
| 82b8721 | Microkernels are not a pipe dream. They represent proven technology. | Andrew S. Tanenbaum | ||
| 35f0cf4 | You know: "dogs and cats living together ... mass hysteria!" | Ernest Cline | ||
| e0d9ccb | The hour draws near! | Ernest Cline | ||
| cb76786 | To be honest, the future doesn't look too bright. You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out. Human civilization is in 'decline.' Some people even say it's 'collapsing. | Ernest Cline |