Brian

“Like the big collaborative projects of the internet, such as Wikipedia and Firefox, like the decentralized network of websites and machines that make up the internet itself, language is a network, a web. Language is the ultimate participatory democracy. To put it in technological terms, language is humanity's most spectacular open source project.”
― Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
― Franz Kafka

“Independence was enriching, but most often it meant loss, isolation, and cultural deprivation,”
― Bernard Bailyn, Sometimes an Art: Nine Essays on History

“Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It's just easier to handle those with emotions.”
― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice