"Your computer monitor is a kind a one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click."

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Source : "The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You". Book by Eli Pariser, 2011.

Eli Pariser

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“But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.”

Source : Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1951). “Oration on the Dignity of Man”
“Ridley Pearson also plays bass guitar and sings with the Rock Bottom Remainders, a band made up of such successful authors as Amy Tan, Stephen King, and Dave Barry-a band that, according to Barry, "plays music as well as Metallica writes novels".”
“The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees.”
“The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.”

Source : Jan Tschichold (1967). “Asymmetric Typography”, New York : Reinhold Publishing Corporation
“Everybody understands that no matter what your day-to-day job is, when something happens, everybody gets involved to get it fixed and make it right. It really comes down to teamwork. When people come into the culture and see that everybody in the company plays a role to make things happen, they also act. When people don't, then it just doesn't work, and they don't make it.”
“The world is full of tragedy; and sympathy, a little common sympathy, can do so much to soften the worst of grief. It is for the lack of that, that people despair and go down.”

Source : Mona Caird, Margaret Morganroth Gullette (1894). “The Daughters of Danaus”, p.490, Feminist Press at CUNY
“I was lucky to have parents who loved me.”
“My joke is a picture of David Bowie on his balcony in the '70s in a suit in Paris, and unless that's you, I'm not interested. There are very few aesthetic types that I have, and people who look like that are not always necessarily good for me.”

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