"I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere."

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Source : "Big Brother and the Next 50 years". Interview with Declan McCullagh, www.cnet.com. June 05, 2003.

Bruce Sterling

#Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Media Quotes

“Healthy areas that are richest in information are those areas in the wild where we can get all the information that's available to us within our human hearing range. The most valuable information throughout human evolution has been faint sounds. We tend to think in our modern world that if it's loud, if it grabs our attention, it's important. We get a lot of that in advertising. But in nature, it's the faintest sound that's important; it has determined, in the past of our ancestors, perhaps, if they will live or die. Faint sounds are the earliest clues of newly arriving information.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I like to make my husband like me more, and he likes it when Iâ€™m wearing makeup.”
“In the orchestra of a great kitchen, the sauce chef is a soloist.”
“In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.”
“The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.”
“I was sitting in this small coffee shop a couple days ago and I saw this old man sitting at a table across from me. He looked so lonely, so sad. I was too, but it suddenly occurred to me that some people go through their whole lives never being loved or loving as deeply as I love you. There's always going to be the chance that I could lose you in this lifetime. There's nothing any of us can do about the possibility of loss. But in that moment, I decided that I was more interested in focusing on the great privilege I've been given in having you at all. Ch. 32”
“I was the first records editor at Rolling Stone, and there were no rules. There was nothing to fall back on as to how do you write about this kind of music, so people were trying absolutely everything with a great sense of freedom and experimentation and success and failure, and a feeling of, â€œMy God, people are actually paying attention to this. Letâ€™s pretend they arenâ€™t because we donâ€™t want to be intimidated by what somebody might think of what weâ€™re saying.”
“the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.”

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