Quinn Norton quotes
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“Every time I scratch apathy, I find powerlessness beneath it. Humans care, they just don't know what to do about it.”
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“You don't owe the internet your time. Your time is yours, whatever time you give the internet is a gift. The internet does not know this, and it will never learn. Time is the most precious thing you have. More than money, or land, or prestige, or any valuable thing you can think of, a life is measured in time. The sooner you walk away from a useless fight, the more of it you get to have.”
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“There is an aesthetic crisis in writing, which is this: how do we write emotionally of scenes involving computers? How do we make concrete, or at least reconstructable in the minds of our readers, the terrible, true passions that cross telephony lines? Right now my field must tackle describing a world where falling in love, going to war and filling out tax forms looks the same; it looks like typing.”
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“Right now my field must tackle describing a world where falling in love, going to war and filling out tax forms looks the same; it looks like typing.”
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“We need to create a society in which civility rules over cynicism and apathy.”
Source : "Citizenship, Colombia-style" by Yvonne Roberts, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2008.
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“Voter apathy is a civic abdication.”
Source : "We Should Be in a Rage" by Charles M. Blow, www.nytimes.com. April 9, 2014.
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“One must scratch that part of the body or mind that itches.”
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“It's incredibly hard to program a network from scratch for 24 hours.”
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“One thing my wife says is bad about me is that I still care too much.”
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“And let her think I don't care she's with you? No can do. She needs to know what I want”
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