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Joy is not ‘the absence of pain,’ intelligence is not ‘the absence of stupidity,’ light is not ‘the absence of darkness,’ an entity is not ‘the absence of a nonentity.’
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“Do we care to match the reality of America to its ideals? If so, do we really believe that our notions of self-government and individual freedom, equality of opportunity and equality before the law, apply to everybody? Or are we instead committed, in practice if not in statute, to reserving those things for a privileged few?”
― A Promised Land
― A Promised Land
“Technology is not the driver of change; what drives technology is human desire.”
― Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
― Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
“Dream is not what you see in sleep. Dream is something which does not let you sleep.”
― India - The Next Superpower: Tame The Dragon, Unleash The Tiger
― India - The Next Superpower: Tame The Dragon, Unleash The Tiger
“People who have no choice are generally unhappy. But people with too many choices are almost as unhappy as those who have no choice at all.”
― Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
― Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
“Perhaps most troubling of all, our democracy seems to be teetering on the brink of crisis—a crisis rooted in a fundamental contest between two opposing visions of what America is and what it should be; a crisis that has left the body politic divided, angry, and mistrustful, and has allowed for an ongoing breach of institutional norms, procedural safeguards, and the adherence to basic facts that both Republicans and Democrats once took for granted.”
― A Promised Land
― A Promised Land
2017 Reading Challenge
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Tom’s 2025 Year in Books
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