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Here’s something four-year-olds know: media that’s targeted at you but doesn’t include you may not be worth sitting still for.
— Clay Shirky, Gin, Television, and Cognitive Surplus
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90 people get the swine flu and everyone wants to wear a mask. A million people have AIDS and no one wants to wear a condom.
— Allison Weiss, http://allisonweiss.tumblr.com/post/102405427/90-people-get-the-swine-flu-and-everybody-wants-to-wear
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The only thing which isn’t ridiculous about Rand and her ‘objectivism’ is the number of people who take her seriously.
— John Lanchester, "Is it Art?" in London Review of Books
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In his State of the Union, the President asked Congress for $300 million for poor kids in the inner city. As there are, officially, 15 million children in America living in poverty, how much is that per child? Correct! $20.
— One Bush Left Behind Greg Palast
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“Just last week, a report revealed that some universities have concerns,” said Sally Hunt, the union’s general secretary. “We are unsure whether those institutions would be clamoring to accept people with McQualifications.”
— McDonald’s to award diploma credits in Britain - Today Technology & Money - TODAYshow.com
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¶It’s still generally a pretty good idea to find out whether a robot is epileptic before inviting it to join your band.
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If the world seems to be full of stupid, crazy and half-asleep people, that is because it is still dominated by Belief Systems. Whether this BS operates under the label of religion or cult or Political Correctness, it shuts off all brain functions except memorization and represents the suicide of intelligence.
— Robert Anton Wilson, Gettingit.com: In Doubt We Trust
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The argument between Left and Right now consists only of debating which are the correct groups to hate.
— Robert Anton Wilson, Robert Anton Wilson | Previous Thoughts
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“Beware of deals in parachutes, brain surgery and tattoos,” said Miller Cotton, a tattoo parlor owner.
— Woman With Tattoo From Homemade Gun Got Sick - Kansas City News Story - KMBC Kansas City
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It does seem like there are a lot of people who are sort of tapping their toes and checking their watches for that inevitable doomsday they know is just around the corner. Doomsday prognostications and dire scenarios seem to be a feature of the human condition. The nature of someone’s particular doomsday appears to depend largely on their ideological stripes. Another feature is that when doomsday doesn’t occur as expected, the non-occurence doesn’t feedback in such a way as to make people question the kinds of thinking that lead to their doomsday predictions. They go on making them.
— Bruce Sterling, The WELL: Bruce Sterling: State of the World, 2008
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Serious-minded people everywhere do know they have to deal with the resource crisis and the climate crisis. Becaus the world-machine’s backfiring and puffing smoke. Joe and Jane Sixpack are looking at four-dollar milk and five-dollar gas. It’s hurting and it’s scary and there’s no way out of it but through it.
— Bruce Sterling, The WELL: Bruce Sterling: State of the World, 2008
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I don’t really go on the internet, it’s like a ouija board, it’s like letting someone into your head, behind your eyes. It lets randoms in.
— Burial, Wire interview
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