Jack Haefner

“the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart.”
― David Brooks, The Road to Character

“The ties we form through the Internet are not, in the end, the ties that bind. But they are the ties that preoccupy.”
― Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

“What is a place if those who are physically present have their attention on the absent? At a café a block from my home, almost everyone is on a computer or smartphone as they drink their coffee. These people are not my friends, yet somehow I miss their presence.”
― Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

“generals rose early to do nothing all day, while diplomats rose late for the same purpose;”
― Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943