"One connection I see between the work I did on philosophy and my work on technology is that both communities tend to mystify and create an atmosphere of complexity."

-- Astra Taylor

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“Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep.”
“Would you be willing to give your life to save the world if no one ever knew your name? If anonymity was the price you would have to pay for significance, would it be too great a price? To live a life of courage is not a guarantee of prestige or adulation. It only matters if you live and die fulfilling the mission you were born for.”
“Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.”
“I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.”

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“I remember when my mother pointed to a stone, and she said this was the kind of stone people used to place on the feet of the baby girls to stop them trying to climb away and unbind their feet.”
“I write books because I have always been fascinated by stories and language, and because I love thinking about what makes people tick. Writing a story... 'The Giver' or any other... is simply an exploration of the nature of behavior: why people do what they do, how it affects others, how we change and grow, and what decisions we make along the way.”
“Because I'm playing Dirk Gently [ in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency], I'm so fond of Dirk. I really see Dirk's vulnerability, and you get that, more and more. You'll start to see a little bit more of Dirk's backstory, why he behaves the way he does, and why he's doing what he's doing. I see a lot of his vulnerability, his sensitivity and his insecurity.”
“Your security is not in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaida. Your security is in your own hands.”

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