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"We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us."
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"The ultimate form of our technological achievement will be identical to the beginning state of this nature."
"I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can."
"Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression."
"Technology has transformed the world into a global village. And communities, families, friends, etc., into local islands."
"Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow."
"The phone is the new tamagotchi. We have to feed it daily with energy to keep it alive."
"Okay, I have internet but it's limited and here on the web the information is countless."
"The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux."
"We still live in the era in which information is rich and insight is poor."
"To a man with an internet connection, every thought and every movement sounds like a tweet or status update."
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"The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together."
"My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it."
"When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a bad show you talk to yourself about it."
"You have to pay attention to the moment and make it the best it can be for you. I've been trying to do that. It's really made a major difference for me. I'm a happier person."
"With other people, you're always swapping music. Somebody is always listening to something you've never heard. It's a great way to hear all sorts of new things."
"I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't have a little list of topics to write about."
"Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control."
"I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too!"
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