#com

If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest in computational interpretations of mind is an equally nervous preoccupation with the self as machine. ↗

— Sherry Turkle

#equality

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#comes #curtains #dawn #grass #hidden

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#changing #conservative #idea #liberal #only

Yet the possibility of information storage, beyond what men and governments ever had before, can make available at the touch of a button a man's total history (including remarks put on his record by his kindergarten teacher about his ability and character). And with the computer must be placed the modern scientific technical capability which exists for wholesale monitoring of telephone, cable, Telex and microwave transmissions which carry much of today's spoken and written communications. The combined use of the technical capability of listening in on all these forms of communications with the high-speed computer literally leaves no place to hide and little room for privacy. ↗

— Francis A. Schaeffer

#computer #government #privacy #communication

To be wrecked begins with an experience that pulls you out of your comfort zone and self-centeredness, whether you want it or not. ↗

— Jeff Goins

#selfishness #wrecked #experience

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . . ↗

— Nick Cave

#cannibals #company #dining #eating #food

We did some soul-searching. Was the cable industry obsolete? Was it an opportune time to get out? Our conclusion was that if you rebuilt your system with this new fiber-optic coaxial hybrid - which we now call broadband - the glass was half full, not half empty. We could compete. ↗

— Brian Roberts

#cable #call #compete #conclusion #could

Is it not true that in ancient times the worst punishment of all was not death, but banishment? ↗

— Jean Said Makdisi

#community #punishment #death

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#inspiration #intention #life-and-death #death

He thought of his wife, of his son, of his youth. He thought of life. He thought of death and then he thought of life again. ↗

— Teodor Flonta

#life #love #secret-police #transylvania #vampires