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“The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.”
― William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

“Each new act of surpassing [dépassement] gives me anew the thing surpassed, and that's why technologies are ways of appropriating the world: the sky belongs to the pilot and the ocean to the navigator”
― Simone de Beauvoir