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"You learn more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."
    -- Aristotle Plato
"When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction."
    -- Mark Twain
"If 5th century BC Pythagoras discovered algebraic theorems, if 19th century Darwin discovered the evolution of species, then what topics does the 21st century mind explore? I would say evolutionary psychology, primitive neuroscience, and information networks."
    -- Luigi Mangione
"I feel lucky for my 21st century education. I get to simply download the knowledge of all who came before me, allowing me to stand on their shoulders and ponder new problems they never would have had access to."
    -- Luigi Mangione

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"The latest round of wrangling between Greece and its European creditors has demonstrated yet again that countries with such disparate economies should never have entered a currency union."
    -- Ashoka Mody
"The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about others things."
    -- Bertrand Russell
"Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think."
    -- Arthur Schopenhauer


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David Weinberger Quotes

What we used to believe because we thought the author was objective we now believe because we can see through the author’s writings to the sources and values that brought her to that position. Transparency gives the reader information by which she can undo some of the unintended effects of the ever-present biases. Transparency brings us to reliability the way objectivity used to. This change is, well, epochal.Get Image

Perhaps the web isn't shortening our attention span. Perhaps the world is just getting more interesting.Get Image

I'd rather have an aggregator than a filter - 100 different viewpoints from all over the world.Get Image

The left and the right can do the same thing. The Net can do the same thing for racists as it did for the Dean campaign. Treating your readers not as readers but as participants is a really good way of creating community and getting supporters.Get Image

A lively, enjoyable and informative tour of a topic that's only going to become more important.Get Image




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