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Joe Quirk
"Nearly half the earth's surface is unclaimed by any country, so seasteads would be startup countries on the blue frontier. Patri Friedman is a Google engineer and theorist of political economy who realized that if society floated, it would completely change the nature of governance itself. If seasteads are modular and can be moved about, allowing people to choose new societies, we'd create a market of governance providers, competing to attract residents." --
Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
Joe Quirk
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“The ordinary people will consider it lack of simplicity to harmonize all the changes throughout ten thousand years. With a tired body and a frightened mind, they toil to avoid this and to take that. The sage alone has no prejudice. He therefore proceeds with utter simplicity and becomes one with transformation and always roams in the realm of unity.”
“We must convince each generation that they are transient passengers on this planet earth. It does not belong to them. They are not free to doom generations yet unborn. They are not at liberty to erase humanity's past nor dim its future.”
Source : Bernard Lown's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1985.
“There is also a particular frustration that I have with language. It's so clumsy. There's often two words that are close in meaning, yet what I'm trying to say is in between them, or it might be a little more layered and nuanced. Having this conversation with you is exciting, because I can feel you resonate, even though we're on the phone. That's really beautiful to me.”
“The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.”
“I like to think of climate action as a three-legged stool.”
Source : "'Climate Change War' Is Not a Metaphor". Interview with Eric Holthaus, www.slate.com. April 18, 2014.
“One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.”
“Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds.”
“A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually.”
