"I understand Twitter has become popular among politicians. This technology allows them to stay in perpetual contact with their constituents. The electorate now has instant information about what politicians have been up to."

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"I understand Twitter has become popular among politicians. This technology allows them to stay in perpetual contact with their constituents. The electorate now has instant information about what politicians have been up to."

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"I understand Twitter has become popular among politicians. This technology allows them to stay in perpetual contact with their constituents. The electorate now has instant information about what politicians have been up to."

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"Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human."

Technology

"The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff."

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"I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements."

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"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."

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"Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely."

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"If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas."

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"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators."

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