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"It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media technology will be dumped on us by some geek in California."

"If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it."

"In old days, instead of asking a teacher, people looked at the dictionary to know the complete definition of teacher. Now Google becomes our teacher and to know about Google, people Google it."

"Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students."

"Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it."

"In this fast-paced digitally connected world, your competitor is only a WhatsApp message away. Be reachable by every medium possible."

"Search engines finds the information, not necessarily the truth."

"I wonder who had the first computer dream, where, and when? I wonder if computers ever dream of humans."

"I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color, black and white, platinum, palladium and digital technology."

"And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain."
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"Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age."

"But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in."

"Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government."

"Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds."

"I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others."

"I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior."

"If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass."

"It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing."

"Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales."
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