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“Politics has a single purpose: to respond to man's terrors. That's why, when the state is no longer able to protect its citizens from fear, the very basis of its existence is called into question.”
― Le Mage du Kremlin
― 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.”
― The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
― The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
“Il n'y a rien de plus sage que de miser sur la folie des hommes.”
― Le Mage du Kremlin
― Le Mage du Kremlin
“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.”
― We Are Data: Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves
― We Are Data: Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves
“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.”
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