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This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

by Nicole Perlroth

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“Information paints no picture, sings no song, and writes no poem.”
― R.F. Georgy, Notes from the Cafe

tags: digital-age, dostoevsky, existentialism, feyodor-dostoevsky, information, information-age, notes-from-the-underground, progress

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“In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian. ”
― Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night

tags: books, librarian, libraries, library

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“With "The Thousand and One Nights", I learned and never forgot that we should read only those books that force us to reread them.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Living to Tell the Tale

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“I'm now asking an idle question of my own: which is better--cheap happiness, or lofty suffering? Well, which is better?”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

tags: life, notes-from-the-underground, philosophy

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“Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

tags: living-life-to-the-fullest, the-present

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