If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
-- Charles Darwin (Voyage of the Beagle)
If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
-- Charles Darwin (Voyage of the Beagle)
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
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It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.
-- Thomas H. Huxley
It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
-- Umberto Eco
Donald Trump is the Payload of a Russian Cyberweapon.
-- Timothy Snyder (The Road to Unfreedom)
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
-- Upton Sinclair
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
-- Galileo Galilei
The goal of security systems is the most security for the least amount of trade-offs. The way to do that is to make the party who is best able to mitigate the risk responsible for the risk.
-- Bruce Schneier