"If what you are getting online is for free, you are not the customer, you are the product."

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Jonathan Zittrain

“In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten.”
“I sit there and think how it isn't fair that I can't drink at all, even a little. I realize I have crammed an entire lifetime of moderate drinking into a decade of hard-core drinking and that is why. I blew my wad.”
“It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.”

Source : Bernard Berenson (1963). “Sunset and Twilight: From the Diaries of 1947-1958”, New York : Harcourt, Brace & World
“I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.”

Source : "Bob Brown and the media: 'I'll take them on ... they've crossed the line'". Interview with John Keane, theconversation.com. June 2, 2011.
“Music, I find, gets you out of a trap [when screenwriting], because it speaks to your emotions directly, it's an abstract thing, it's not concerned with plot or story. And so music really helps - often I'll listen to the music and just write anything, just to get through.”
“She told Papa about it. He made her stick out her tongue and he felt her wrist. He shook his head sadly and said, "You have a bad case, a very bad case." "Of what?" "Growing up.”
“To everyone who says this is wrong to feel like this say, 'I was born this way baby.”
“Friends buy you lunch. Best friends eat your lunch.”

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