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    Jess C. Scott
    “I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like.”
    ― Jess C Scott, New Order
    tags: bisexual, bisexuality, bisexuals, body, books, boy, cool, culture, desire, emotion, erotic, erotica, friendship, funny, gay, gay-men, gay-rights, glbt, guy, honesty, humor, humour, imagination, individuality, life, love, music, novel, passion, reality, relationships, romance, self, sex, sexuality, society, society-s-increasing-stupidity, technology, truth, wisdom, young, youth
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    Pablo Picasso
    “Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: technology
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    Philip K. Dick
    “There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.”
    ― Philip K. Dick
    tags: dystopia, liberty, spying, surveillance, surveillance-society, technology
    574 likes

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    Jess C. Scott
    “That’s sad. How plastic and artificial life has become. It gets harder and harder to find something…real.” Nin interlocked his fingers, and stretched out his arms. “Real love, real friends, real body parts…”
    ― Jess C Scott, The Other Side of Life
    tags: body-image, cyberpunk, materialism, meaning, plastic-surgery, reality, reflection, society, technology
    355 likes

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    Jess C. Scott
    “Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.”
    ― Jess C Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel
    tags: body, boy, boyfriend, boys, cool, culture, desire, emotion, friendship, funny, honesty, humor, humour, imagination, individuality, life, love, music, novel, passion, poem, poems, poet, poetry, poetry-life, poets, reality, relationships, romance, self, sex, technology, truth, wisdom, young, youth
    415 likes

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  • #6
    Eoin Colfer
    “A CD. How quaint. We have these in museums.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, The Eternity Code
    tags: holly-short, technology
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    Jess C. Scott
    “My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.”
    ― Jess C Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel
    tags: body, books, cool, culture, desire, emotion, friendship, funny, girl, honesty, humor, humour, imagination, individuality, life, love, music, novel, passion, reality, relationships, romance, self, sex, technology, truth, wisdom, young, youth
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    Douglas Adams
    “First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.”
    ― Douglas Adams
    tags: computer, science, technology
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    Patti Smith
    “Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."

    (Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)”
    ― Patti Smith
    tags: books, materialism, musicians, pure-awesome, technology
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    Douglas Adams
    “We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: humour, life, science, technology
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    Jess C. Scott
    “V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.”
    ― Jess C Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel
    tags: body, books, cool, culture, desire, emotion, friendship, funny, girl, honesty, humor, humour, imagination, individuality, life, love, music, novel, passion, reality, relationships, romance, self, sex, technology, truth, wisdom, young, youth
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  • #12
    You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new
    “You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
    To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
    ― Buckminster Fuller
    tags: activism, adaption, change, development, digital-revolution, future, movement, new-models, p2p, progress, progression, protest, revolution, science, society, structural-changes, technology, world, zeitgeist, zeitgeist-movement
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  • #13
    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible
    tags: magic, science, technology, wonder
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  • #14
    It's still magic even if you know how it's done.
    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
    tags: magic, technology
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    Agatha Christie
    “I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.”
    ― Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: technology, wisdom
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means
    tags: technology
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    John Brunner
    “It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button. ”
    ― John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar
    tags: humour, sociology, technology
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    David Sedaris
    “At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me.”
    ― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
    tags: humor, technology, typewriters
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  • #20
    Karl Lagerfeld
    “The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.”
    ― Karl Lagerfeld
    tags: ipod, music, technology
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    Nadine Gordimer
    “Books don't need batteries.”
    ― Nadine Gordimer
    tags: books, technology
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    Terry Pratchett
    “It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men
    tags: technology, wonder
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    Robert M. Pirsig
    “The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed.”
    ― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
    tags: software, technology, usability
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  • #24
    Dan Brown
    “Even the technology that promises to unite us, divides us. Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.”
    ― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
    tags: isolation, technology
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
    tags: computers, humor, sex, technology, technophobes, wit
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    Jefferson Bethke
    “We refuse to turn off our computers, turn off our phone, log off Facebook, and just sit in silence, because in those moments we might actually have to face up to who we really are.”
    ― Jefferson Bethke, Jesus > Religion: Why He Is So Much Better Than Trying Harder, Doing More, and Being Good Enough
    tags: facebook, internet, silence, social, technology
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  • #27
    Wendell Berry
    “My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be so employed. And in our time this means that we must save ourselves from the products that we are asked to buy in order, ultimately, to replace ourselves.”
    ― Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
    tags: calling, identity, leisure, technology, work
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    Chuck Klosterman
    “Everyone knows that the Internet is changing our lives, mostly because someone in the media has uttered that exact phrase every single day since 1993. However, it certainly appears that the main thing the Internet has accomplished is the normalization of amateur pornography. There is no justification for the amount of naked people on the World Wide Web, many of whom are clearly (clearly!) doing so for non-monetary reasons. Where were these people fifteen years ago? Were there really millions of women in 1986 turning to their husbands and saying, 'You know, I would love to have total strangers masturbate to images of me deep-throating a titanium dildo, but there's simply no medium for that kind of entertainment. I guess we'll just have to sit here and watch Falcon Crest again.”
    ― Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
    tags: humor, internet, porn, sex, technology, women
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