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"Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are."
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"They told me that nothing was a sin, just a poor life choice. Poor impulse control. That nothing is evil. Any concept of right versus wrong, according to them, is merely a cultural construct relative to one specific time and place. They said that if anything should force us to modify our personal behavior it should be our allegiance to a social contract, not some vague, externally imposed threat of flaming punishment."
"Your moral foundation and character currently depend on what you hear."
"To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: to throw away the happiness of thousands for the chance of the happiness of one: that would be to let guilt within the walls indeed."
"Life wants you to know that feelings are more important than facts, and you should never hurt someone just to be right."
"Ethics are the things that say, 'Don't stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It's okay because we've shut off the electricity.' And at the point that we've chosen to listen to the world and ignore our ethics, we say, 'I'm having a really hard time getting back up."
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"Sometimes a citizenry should not simply 'be good'. You have to leave space for dissent, real dissent."
"Realtechnik is skeptical about linear progress. It encourages humility, a state of mind in which we are most open to facing problems and reconsidering decisions. It helps us acknowledge costs and recognize the things we hold inviolate."
"A good therapy helps you develop a sense of irony about your life so that when you start to repeat old and unhelpful patterns, something within you says, 'There you go again; let's call this to a halt. You can do something different.' Often the first step toward doing something different is developing the capacity to not act, to stay still and reflect."
"From the earliest days, videogame players were less interested in winning than in going to a new psychic place where things were always a bit different, but always the same. The gambler and the videogame player share a life of contradiction; you are overwhelmed, and so you disappear into the game."
"A sacred space is not a place to hide out. It is a place where we recognize ourselves and our commitments."
"If you feel it right now, on the Internet, you can tell them right now; you don't have to wait for anything."
"The way we contemplate technology on the horizon says much about who we are and who we are willing to become."
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