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“We know neither what's good for us nor what's bad. But we're free to decide on the meaning of the things that do happen. And that's our one and only strength.”
― Giuliano da Empoli, The Wizard of the Kremlin: Now a Major Motion Picture Starring Jude Law, Paul Dano & Alicia Vikander

“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

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

“For man is poor. Irremediably. We *are* poverty, buffeted between desire and disgust.”
― Éric Vuillard, The War of the Poor