"Privacy is not a static construct. It is not an inherent property of any particular information or setting. It is a process by which people seek to have control over a social situation by managing impressions, information flows, and context."

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Source : danah boyd (2014). “It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens”, p.76, Yale University Press

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#People Quotes #Information Quotes #Flow Quotes

“An announcement of [Christopher] Zeeman's lecture at Northwestern University in the spring of 1977 contains a quote describing catastrophe theory as the most important development in mathematics since the invention of calculus 300 years ago.”

Source : Stephen Smale, Roderick Wong (2000). “The Collected Papers of Stephen Smale”, p.814, World Scientific
“We'll look at the japanese launch as a model and aspire to have things go as well as they did over there.”
“Discovery peaked 30 years ago. It takes no feat of the imagination. It takes no feat of intellect to conclude we now face the corresponding peak in production in 2005.”
“They canâ€™t even think of freedom because they donâ€™t have the language to.”
“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”

Source : "Blindness". Book by Jose Saramago, October 1997.
“Some of the biographies [of princess Margaret] were really sensationalist, News of the World sorts, but they were great because they also gave first and secondhand accounts of her at home. The butlers come forward and give little moments, some of which you discard and some which ring somehow true and you use.”
“...The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits.”
“An unacknowledged trauma is like a wound that never heals over and may start to bleed again at any time.”

Source : Alice Miller (1998). “Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the Child”, p.226, Macmillan

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