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“All is permitted in Paradise, except curiosity.”
― Giuliano da Empoli, Le Mage du Kremlin

“Most people living in rich, stable developed countries have no idea how Denmark itself got to be Denmark—something that is true for many Danes as well. The struggle to create modern political institutions was so long and so painful that people living in industrialized countries now suffer from a historical amnesia regarding how their societies came to that point in the first place.”
― Francis Fukuyama, The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

“The entire [US Government] project rested on the premise that 'terrorist signatures' actually existed. Yet this premise did not hold up. The conclusion was inevitable: "The one thing predictable anout predictive daya mining for terrrorism is that it would be consistently wrong". Any single, universal model of 'terrorist' will unavoidably fail to account for the wide varieties of different terror attacks around the world.”
― John Cheney-Lippold, We Are Data: Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves

“Il n'y a rien de plus sage que de miser sur la folie des hommes.”
― Giuliano da Empoli, Le Mage du Kremlin