"Technology changes all the time; human nature hardly ever,"

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Source : Evgeny Morozov (2012). “The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom”, p.315, PublicAffairs

Evgeny Morozov

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“We forgive, we mortify our resentment; a week later some chain of thought carries us back to the original offence and we discover the old resentment blazing away as if nothing had been done about it at all. We need to forgive our brother seventy times seven not only for 490 offences but for one offence.”
“The terrible thing about love is that it takes away your safety net, your balancing pole. Even the tightrope you walk upon will disappear beneath you, yet love expects you to keep walking anyway, arms outstretched, one foot after the other, on nothing more than air.”

Source : Christopher Barzak (2008). “The Love We Share Without Knowing”, p.65, Bantam
“You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).”
“Recycling is more expensive for communities than it needs to be, partly because traditional recycling tries to force materials into more lifetimes than they are designed for - a complicated and messy conversion, and one that itself expends energy and resources. Very few objects of modern consumption were designed with recycling in mind. If the process is truly to save money and materials, products must be designed from the very beginning to be recycled or even "upcycled" - a term we use to describe the return to industrial systems of materials with improved, rather than degraded, quality.”
“At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.”
“There is no more terrible woe upon earth than the woe of the stricken brain, which remembers the days of its strength, the living light of its reason, the sunrise of its proud intelligence, and knows that these have passed away like a tale that is told ...”
“Well, I'm celebrating the fact that Republicans are doing better with women.”

Source : "Talking Official GOP Agenda with Rep. Cathy McMorris, Gov. Bob McDonnell". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. August 27, 2012.
“The most important thing is that you're comfortable with who you're working with as a person. Forget the music, if you can sit in a room with someone and you don't have awkwardness.”

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