"With work increasingly invisible, it's much harder to……" — George Packer
"With work increasingly invisible, it's much harder to grasp the human effects, the social contours, of the Internet economy."
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24 Quotes by George Packer
George Packer has 24 quotes on this site.
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We will have a more just society as soon as we want one.
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It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true.
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It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore.
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Much of the international unease with the Sochi Games has focused on the threat of terrorism, Putin's domestic repressiveness, and…
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Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making…
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Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and…
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Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.
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The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line…
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Amazon's identity and goals are never clear and always fluid, which makes the company destabilizing and intimidating.
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Twitter is crack for media addicts,
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At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish,…
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Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have…
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More Contours Quotes
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In the time that I have been acquainted with this region I have become increasingly aware of it as a…
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It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat…
— Ernest Hemingway
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I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract,…
— Yves Klein
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In my address last year, I spoke on the issue of gaming. My preference then is my preference now: to…
— Tim Pawlenty
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In building a path through the self to the far shore of awareness, we have to carefully pick our way…
— Mark Epstein
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Art in relation to life is nothing more than a glove turned inside out. It seems to have the same…
— Morton Feldman
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I have felt terribly from the beginning when I saw the problems and recognized that they would be ongoing. We…
— Ben Crenshaw
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Each individual has their own unique color, which shines faintly around the contours of their body. Like a halo. Or…
— Haruki Murakami
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Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.
— Slavoj Žižek
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Keep it simple: In general, interfaces should use simple geometric forms, minimal contours, and a restricted color palette comprised primarily…
— Alan Cooper
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Sometimes, when we're terrified of embracing our true calling, we'll pursue a shadow calling instead. That shadow career is a…
— Steven Pressfield
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At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of the imagination had stronger and more lasting contours…
— Isabel Allende
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