August 2010
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Every young person one day will be entitled automatically to change his or her...
– Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google
This has been quoted in RWW and Gawker—in a derisive way. One of the follow ups: “I don’t believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time… I mean we really have to think about these...
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The web is ruled by maniacs like Perez Hilton, Ron Paul zealots, Apple fan boys,...
– Jonah Peretti, A Viral Meetup Talk
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Dallas and Los Angeles represent two distinct models for successful American...
– Virginia Postrel, A Tale of Two Townhouses
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Their job was to arrange the shuffled photos on the ground to show the correct...
– Lera Boroditsky, Does Language Influence Culture
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Good documentation is condescendingly terse, and Git’s documentation is...
– Ted Dziuba
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The error could hardly have been more awkward. Governed by India but claimed by...
– John Gravois, The Agnostic Cartographer
“It is said that every map is a political statement. But Google, by trying to subvert that truth, may just be intensifying the politics even more.”
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