"I don't like closed systems."

-- Jon Lech Johansen

“I was really into artwork in high school and my art teacher made it clear to me that it's not really a career. She insisted that if I wanted to make a living this way, I would have to find a career that might actually reward me for the artwork.”
“It's strictly coincidental that Pluto of course was named for the god of the underworld and we're describing these Halloween moons”
“Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.”
“There is but one evil, ignorance.”
“Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.”
“Not being able to find meaning can be just as powerful as finding meaning,”
“Weâ€™re not about picking a mayor. Weâ€™re about making a mayor, making the winner. And thatâ€™s what weâ€™re gonna doâ€¦. I talk to them (the mayoral candidates) constantly. All of them. I know all about all of their families. I know about their dogs and this and that.”
“The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in which politics means the power to love and the power to feel united on the spaceship Earth... In a world struggling in violence and dishonesty, the further development of non-violence - not only as a philosophy but as a way of life, as a force on the streets, in the market squares, outside the missile bases, inside the chemical plants and inside the war industry - becomes one of the most urgent priorities.”

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