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Simone Weil

"Nothing is less instructive than a machine."

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Amber Hurdle

"While we are curling down in our comfort zone, the perverted talents of connectivity-designers drive us surreptitiously into a blind alley of addiction. If, however, we succeed in impeding mobiles' unlimited rule, we may be able to relish the fragrance of the 'moment' but also sense the vital spark and spirit of "otherness. ['Even if the world goes down, my mobile will save me']"

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Amber Hurdle

"Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it."

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"When all is said and done, the invention of writing must be reckoned not only as a brilliant innovation but as a surpassing good for humanity. And assuming that we survive long enough to use their inventions wisely, I believe the same will be said of the modern Thoths and Prometheuses who are today devisingcomputers and programs at the edge of machine intelligence."

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Amber Hurdle

"I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots."

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"To a man with an internet connection, every thought and every movement sounds like a tweet or status update."

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"I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user."

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"At the beginning of that interval a type-machine was a curiosity. The person who owned one was a curiosity, too. But now it is the other way about: the person who doesn't own one is a curiosity."

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Amber Hurdle

"Technology empowers the less empowered. If there is a strong force that bring a change in the lives of those on the margins it is technology. It serves as a leveler and a springboard."

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Amber Hurdle

"Our television signals leave this planet and go out into space...the signals spread out from the earth in spherical waves, a little like ripples in a pond. They travel at the speed of light, 186,000 miles a second, and essentially go on forever. The better some other civilizations receivers are, the farther away they could be and still pick up our tv signals. Even we could detect a strong tv transmission from a planet going around the nearest star.' President: 'You mean everything? You mean to say all that crap on television - the car crashes, wrestling, the porno channels, the evening news?"

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Amber Hurdle

"How safe and secure is the internet?Well.....Would you leave all your worldly belongings on the road and expect them to be there when you came back seven years later?"

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"The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell."
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"There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice."
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"Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication."
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"Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge."
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"We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful."
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