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21 " There are billions of lives at stake. Tinkering with the organization of human society—it never ends well. "
― Daniel Suarez , Freedom™ (Daemon, #2)
22 " Did these systems give us more than they took from us? "
23 " nodded. “I see that you’re a first-level Fighter. Which makes it all the more "
24 " Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget. "
25 " the public doesn’t really decide anything now—they just select from the options they’re given. "
26 " She recalled scoffing at Morris’s three golden rules of computer security: do not own a computer;do not power it on;and do not use one The subtlety of it had escaped her at the time. It wasn’t meant as a surrender. It was a meditation on risk versus benefit. Did these systems give us more than they took from us? It was an admission that we will never be fully secure. We must instead strive for survivability. "
27 " It’s your life. You should be the hero of it. If it’s any consolation, I’m the hero of mine, too. "
28 " When people became more reliant on multinational corporations than on their own communities, they surrendered whatever say they had in their government. Corporations are growing stronger while democratic government becomes increasingly helpless. "
29 " Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent name for it. In the Middle Ages it was the Catholic Church. They had a great logo, too. You might have seen it, and they had more branches than Starbucks. Go back before that, and it was Imperial Rome. It’s a natural process as old as humanity. "
30 " Burning Man instantiated. "