"Consent of the Networked will become the seminal book firmly establishing the responsibility of those who control the architecture and the politics of the network to the citizens who inhabit our new digital world. Consent of the Networked should be required reading for all of those involved in building our networked future as well as those who live in it."

-- Joichi Ito

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Responsibility Quotes

“Man armed with science is like a baby with a box of matches.”
“Whoever considers the number of absurd and ridiculous oaths necessary to be taken at present in most countries, on being admitted into any society or profession whatever, will be less surprised to find prevarication still prevailing, where perjury has led the way.”

Source : Guillaume Thomas François RAYNAL, John Obadiah JUSTAMOND (1783). “A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies. Translated ... by J. Justamond, M. A. The third edition: revised and corrected. With maps adapted to the work and a copious index”, p.349
“We are different from previous generations of conservatives... We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country.”

Source : "Burying conservatism" by Ian Williams, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2008.
“You can't get down and think things won't get better or they definitely won't.”
“My whole mentality is that I eat what I want within moderation, and I have a little bit of everything. If you deprive yourself, you get moody and unhappy, and you have to enjoy life.”
“In the forties, to get a girl you had to be a GI or a jock. In the fifties, to get a girl you had to be Jewish. In the sixties, to get a girl you had to be black. In the seventies, to get a girl you've got to be a girl.”
“To ask may be but a moment's shame, not to ask and remain ignorant is a lifelong shame.”
“Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality.”

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