Mark Pesce quotes
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“In some ways, I believe that we are moving into a post-historical period, for lack of a better term. A time when whatever functioned previously will cease to function, or at least will have to be re-thought and re-considered.”
-- Mark PesceSource : "An Afternoon with Mark Pesce: The Uncut Version". Interview with Gregory Pleshaw, hyperreal.org.
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“I would almost consider myself a canonical child of Generation X... because I think there is an ethic and aesthetic that goes along with that generation, it may have something to do with the fact that "Never Mind the Bollocks" was released when we were 16-years-old and that was really the album that crystalized a generation.”
-- Mark PesceSource : "An Afternoon with Mark Pesce: The Uncut Version". Interview with Gregory Pleshaw, hyperreal.org.
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“Basically, to sum up: We're a generation of anarchists, and we just haven't gotten our hands on the means of production yet so we can fetter the wheels. We haven't been handed the controls yet except to the Internet, which is why it looks like it does.”
-- Mark PesceSource : "An Afternoon with Mark Pesce: The Uncut Version". Interview with Gregory Pleshaw, en.wikiquote.org.
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“I very much consider the Internet a garden, and I'm a gardener, and I plant things in it and I work within the framework of the soil, the seasons, the climate, and the temperature, to produce plants.”
-- Mark PesceSource : "An Afternoon with Mark Pesce: The Uncut Version". hyperreal.org.
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“Cognitive liberty begins at home, behind your eyes and between your ears. The first act of liberation is to step forward, and be counted as one of us.”
-- Mark PesceSource : "Tales of Un-DARE-ing Do". Speech at Students for a Sensible Drug Policy/Marijuana Policy Project Joint Conference, hyperreal.org. November 09, 2002.
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“Trying to get a read on Apple Computer is a lot like learning about quantum physics; you can never know Apple's position on a technology, and its direction, simultaneously.”
-- Mark Pesce
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Source : Quoted in Sports Illustrated, 17 Apr. 1989
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“Swedes, we are not - Russians, we do not want to become ... so let us be Finnish.”
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“Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.”
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