"Introducing a technology is not a neutral act--it is profoundly revolutionary. If you present a new technology to the world you are effectively legislating a change in the way we all live. You are changing society, not some vague democratic process. The individuals who are driven to use that technology by the disparities of wealth and power it creates do not have a real choice in the matter. So the idea that we are giving people more freedom by developing technologies and then simply making them available is a dangerous illusion."

-- Karl Schroeder

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“Writers are always selling somebody out.”
“When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.”
“The American public is sick and tired of being lied to.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The being level speaks the language of art, music, color shape and pattern directly -- a language that requires no words -- is not limited by words -- nor does it have the specificity of words and thus cannot be broken onto parts that can be manipulated or analyzed by the intellect. It must be swallowed, whole not parsed, sorted and justified.”
“There are true unseen forces, but not nearly so many as we believe, nor would they rule us so sternly if we did not admit them to our souls. We would not be assailed half so often by devils, had we not taken the trouble to invent so many of them.”

Source : Robert Silverberg (1984). “Lord of Darkness”, Bantam
“She saw herself moving through another life, an exotic, difficult, satisfying life.”
“Now, at a moment when photography is so pervasive that it's been forced to grapple with its own identity and look inward, it feels like a natural moment for painting to look out, to reclaim that directive of picturing America.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“There cannot be Ups in a roller-coaster ride unless there are Downs.”

Source : "Dark Rooms: A Saga". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2001.

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