Most scientific revelations happened after the pursuit of knowledge quit being secret and hermetic. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes happen hermetic knowledge
The Internet is the most liberating tool for humanity ever invented, and also the best for surveillance. It's not one or the other. It's both. John Perry Barlow humanityinternetinvent Change image and share on social
Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. John Perry Barlow blindgovernmentinstall Change image and share on social
Google, Amazon, Apple. Any number of cloud providers and computer service providers who can increasingly limit your access to your own information, control all your processing, take away your data if they want to, and observe everything you do; in a way, that does give them some leverage over your own life. John Perry Barlow accessamazonapple share on social
What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience, that's a combination of both of those things and is informed by my knowledge and something new that I see the artist doing. Cheech Marin artartistcombination share on social
The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it. Pamela Sargent businessconnectdeal share on social
Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement. Salvatore Quasimodo beginconsiderdictatorship Change image and share on social