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Douglas Rushkoff has 135 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Our digital experiences are out of body. This biases us toward depersonalised behaviour in an environment where one’s identity can be a…
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It's also hard for people to contend with the difficult possibility that we are simply overadvanced fungi and bacteria hurtling through a…
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Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really…
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Our society has reoriented itself to the present moment. Everything is live, real time, and always-on. It’s not a mere speeding up,…
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The plague did not lead to Europe’s economic collapse. Rather, Europe’s currency-driven economic collapse led to the plague.
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Our enthusiasm for digital technology about which we have little understanding and over which we have little control leads us not toward…
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Digiphrenia”—the way our media and technologies encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time.
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The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our brain’s own…
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If we stop believing in a future, if we stop doing things for something else but start doing them for now, some…
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It may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us,
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More than anything, rave was an intentionally designed experience. The music, lighting, and ambience were all fine-tuned to elicit and augment altered…
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Ecstacy stripped away the user's inhibitions to self-expression. On E, lies are inefficient, and the peculiarities or weaknesses they are meant to…
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...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of…
— James Jeans
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It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. Whether as a general…
— George Boole
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We ourselves were well conversant with war, murder and everything evil, but all of us throughout the whole wide earth have traded…
— Justin Martyr
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It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.
— George Boole
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Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming,…
— Plato
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Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt…
— Knut Hamsun
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Anyone who wishes to learn how to play chess well must make himself or herself thoroughly conversant with the play in positions…
— Alexander Kotov
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Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbage’s Analytical Engine] is to give its…
— Ada Lovelace
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How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.
— Lois Lowry
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The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to…
— John Welch
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The student of Nature wonders the more and is astonished the less, the more conversant he becomes with her operations; but of…
— Thomas Huxley
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