Peter Reilly

“leading Silicon Valley investors and inventors stopped believing in both democracy and the liberal nation-state, subscribing instead to a hybrid Brandian/Randian vision of a world requiring no controls but a keyboard, a mouse, and a stock exchange.”
― Jill Lepore, The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State

“when Silicon Valley tries to imagine superintelligence, what it comes up with is no-holds-barred capitalism”:”
― Jill Lepore, The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State

“The dirt farmers of the state did not need labor. They tended to be more racist, less educated, and profoundly suspicious of elites, particularly in the Delta.”
― Dorothy Overstreet Pratt, Sowing the Wind: The Mississippi Constitutional Convention of 1890

“the best answers to the hardest questions are very often found in the murky bottoms of wind-rippled fishing ponds, in pastures dotted with the frowsy blooms of white and red clover, and beneath the wispy, yellowy whips of willow trees. I looked there, too.”
― Jill Lepore, The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State