"Creating your own blog is about as easy as creating your own urine, and you're about as likely to find someone else interested in it." -- Lore SjöbergThe above are the ones that resonate with me.
"Institutions do all the things that are supposed to be bad. They impede personal exploration. They enforce conformity. But they often save us from our weaknesses and give meaning to life." -- David Brooks
"This is my long-run forecast in brief: The material conditions of life will continue to get better for most people, in most countries, most of the time, indefinitely. Within a century or two, all nations and most of humanity will be at or above today's Western living standards. I also speculate, however, that many people will continue to think and say that the conditions of life are getting worse." -- Julian Simon
"The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing." -- Errol Morris
Kevin Kelly is an interesting fellow. He was involved in The Whole Earth Catalog and with Wired magazine. My favourite book by him is Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World.
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