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"I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I'm a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day."
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"People thought I was very pro-computer. I was on the cover of 'Wired' magazine. Then things began to change. In the early '80s, we met this technology and became smitten like young lovers. But today our attachment is unhealthy."
"Sometimes a citizenry should not simply 'be good'. You have to leave space for dissent, real dissent."
"We see a first generation going through adolescence knowing their every misstep, all the awkward gestures of their youth, are being frozen in a computer's memory."
"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."
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