May 6, 2009
"Any time someone puts a lock on something you own against your wishes, and doesn’t give you the key, they’re not doing it for your benefit."

— Cory Doctorow on DRM

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April 21, 2009
"If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way."

— Bertrand Russell

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December 11, 2008
"Civilization is the process in which one gradually increases the number of people included in the term ‘we’ or ‘us’ and at the same time decreases those labeled ‘you’ or ‘them’ until that category has no one left in it."

— Howard Dalton Winters [1923-1994] as quoted by Anne-Marie Cantwell, in Howard Dalton Winters: In Memoriam. Unpublished paper, Midwest Archaeological Conference, Lexington, KY. 1994

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