"Computers are not good or bad; they are powerful."

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Source : Sherry Turkle (2005). “The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit”, p.311, MIT Press

Sherry Turkle

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“I regard teaching religion as purveying lies.”
“We are in the dark places of the earth," said Madman. "Where all the ancient and most dangerous secrets are kept. There are Old Things down here, sleeping all around us, in the earth and in the living rock, and in the spaces between spaces. Keep your voices down. Some of these old creatures sleep but lightly, and even their dreams can have force and substance in our limited world. We have come among forgotten gods and sleeping devils, from the days before the world settled down and declared itself sane.”
“Kitsch lends itself to a definition in terms of a systematic attempt to fly from daily reality: in time and in space.”
“I started making houses for ants because I thought they needed somewhere to live. Then I made them shoes and hats. It was a fantasy world I escaped to where my dyslexia didn't hold me back and my teachers couldn't criticize me. That's how my career as a micro-sculptor began.”

Source : "Buzz Aldrin Needle Sculpture Created By English Artist Willard Wigan" by Leonard David, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2013.
“Aside from comic book heroes, the only real life heroes I had were musicians.”
“You can't just go outside and play hockey. It's more of an expensive sport.”

Source : Source: www.ign.com
“People die because they find living too painful.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I hold the line, the line of strength that pulls me from the fear.”

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