Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious
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“Develop a little self-righteousness. A lot of that is an ugly thing, God knows, but a little applied over all your scruples is an absolute necessity! It”
― The Stand
― The Stand
“Algorithms will make mistakes. Algorithms will be unfair. That should in no way distract us from the fight to make them more accurate and less biased wherever we can – but perhaps acknowledging that algorithms aren’t perfect, any more than humans are, might just have the effect of diminishing any assumption of their authority.”
― Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
― Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
“Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam;”
― Areopagitica A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England
― Areopagitica A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England
“through our forwardness to suppress, and our backwardness to recover any enthralled piece of truth out of the gripe of custom, we care not to keep truth separated from truth, which is the fiercest rent and disunion of all.”
― Areopagitica A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England
― Areopagitica A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England
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