Frantz Augustin

“The fundamental purpose of most people at Facebook working on data is to influence and alter people’s moods and behaviour. They are doing it all the time to make you like stories more, to click on more ads, to spend more time on the site.”
― Ryan Holiday, Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator

“The more established we are in our world, the less flexibility we have for allowing a partner into that world.”
― Susan Quilliam, How to Choose a Partner

“In this universe of privately controlled education, each charter school can choose the curricula of its choice: Evolution is just a theory, the Bible is a literal history, dinosaurs and human beings simultaneously inhabited the earth, men are superior to women, white Christians to everyone else, and so on. Private and charter schools are like websites: they can foster any belief, shatter the idea that there is anything called truth,”
― Ellen Ullman, Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology

“If you’re like me, you’ve sat and stared in fascination at the pictures of the ruins of Detroit that get passed around the internet.”
― Ryan Holiday, Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator