It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.
—Cory Doctorow, 2013
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Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one’s conquests.
—Louisa May Alcott, 1866Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
—Alvin Toffler, 1970Most men employ the first years of their life in making the last miserable.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth.
—Francis Picabia, 1949It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mold, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1790You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
—Leon TrotskyI have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night.
—Sarah Williams, 1868Under all speech that is good for anything, there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as eternity; speech is shallow as time.
—Thomas Carlyle, 1838All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
—Edmund Burke, 1796The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615The best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
—Samuel Johnson, 1750