“If you copied a hundred Einsteins, only one would have come up with relativity. Why? Because the others would be in different environments. Any Einstein in a university environment would have worked on other problems, and would have been
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“The revolution has no leader, I said. It was more like a raging wild horse that would buck anyone who tried to mount it against its will.”
― Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People is Greater Than the People in Power: A Memoir
― Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People is Greater Than the People in Power: A Memoir
“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
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“Taken in its entirety, the Snowden archive led to an ultimately simple conclusion: the US government had built a system that has as its goal the complete elimination of electronic privacy worldwide. Far from hyperbole, that is the literal, explicitly stated aim of the surveillance state: to collect, store, monitor, and analyze all electronic communication by all people around the globe. The agency is devoted to one overarching mission: to prevent the slightest piece of electronic communication from evading its systemic grasp.”
― No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
― No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
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