Douglas Rushkoff Quotes
I am much less concerned with whatever it is technology may be doing to people that what people are choosing to do to one another through technology. Facebook's reduction of people to predictively modeled profiles and investment banking's convolution of the marketplace into an algorithmic battleground were not the choices of machines.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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I was dressed like Darth Vader. Vader was my man, even with the villainy. He wore all black and had a deep voice; he reminded me of my uncle. I had a cheap mask-cape combo, the kind available at any pharmacy during October.
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I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
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I don't drink coffee.
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I am aware that I look good for my age. It's my genes. My dad looked incredibly young, so did my mother. And a younger husband helps. Scott is only 45. If he hadn't come along, I don't know what I'd have done.
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We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
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Failure's a natural part of life.
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I don't feel drawn to lightness, I need something more. I feel that - oh, I hate saying this, it sounds so wanky - but I feel a real urge to give voices to people we don't usually hear from in real life.
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I'm just angry at the sort of things that are winding up in ground beef. I'm angry that other people - mainly children - are going to be sickened by eating a hamburger.
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The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free.
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I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.
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I am much less concerned with whatever it is technology may be doing to people that what people are choosing to do to one another through technology. Facebook's reduction of people to predictively modeled profiles and investment banking's convolution of the marketplace into an algorithmic battleground were not the choices of machines.
