"I advocate for protecting the liberty of the net, and securing privacy. I argue against people who believe both are somehow given automatically. They're not."

-- Lawrence Lessig

#Believe Quotes #People Quotes #Liberty Quotes

“Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day.”
“I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone interviews and then was applauded by editors for 'working magic.”
“My last comment was, though, that Congress has cooked the books.”
“After a few minutes, it was time for me to leave. I don't know who decides these things. It just happens.”
“Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.”
“The programmer's primary weapon in the never-ending battle against slow system is to change the intramodular structure. Our first response should be to reorganize the modules' data structures.”
“Brexit has shrunk the market opportunities. Exiting trade deals will do the same for the U.S. Those deals must be actively shaped and governed to make growth more inclusive.”
“Writing is the hammer & chisel that breaks down the established way of thinking. A concrete event, then an abstraction. An image, then a thought. Finally, writing builds another establishment with the fragments.”

Source : Diane Glancy (1996). “Claiming Breath”, p.23, U of Nebraska Press

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