"I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil."

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Source : "I don't have a modem". Interview with Dan Josefsson, www.josefsson.net. November 23, 1994.

William Gibson

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“When we weren't scratching each other's eyes out, we were making each other laugh harder than anyone else could.”
“And that's what's beautiful to me, is he did not become a victim of it, and he didn't become a statistic, he just kind of kept on marching through, no matter what people threw at him.”
“Poverty always looks the same, no matter where you come across it. The rich can always express their opulence by varying their lives. Different houses, clothes, cars. Or thoughts, dreams. But for the poor there is nothing but compulsory grayness, the only form of expression available to poverty.”
“Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.”
“It's interesting that Swiss banks also hide their assets from the Swiss by using offshore bank structuring.”
“I feel almost as if I had been born in a vacuum of innocence, and then had to come to terms with the fact that actually, I was born into the middle of history - the rather grimy normality of the 70s, which did, indeed, retain some traces of human innocence, but were also girded about by the demons of experience.”
“I like monsters in general - that's what I like to write about. Somebody was joking with me that my body was becoming a manual for a role-playing game because I'm covered in little monsters. That's true. I could easily have more monsters on my skin.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“It is impossible to build enduring institutions without solid values. For us, the fundamental value is that associated with democracy.”

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