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“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.”
― William Gibson

“All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.”
― Julius Caesar

“Once Microsoft lost its grip on developers, it became only a matter of time before it lost its monopoly on operating systems.”
― Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things

“As former NSA general counsel Stewart Baker said, “Metadata absolutely tells you everything about somebody’s life. If you have enough metadata you don’t really need content.”
― Bruce Schneier, Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World

“In 2014, former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden remarked, “We kill people based on metadata.”
― Bruce Schneier, Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World

“It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labour of calculation which could safely be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.

(Describing, in 1685, the value to astronomers of the hand-cranked calculating machine he had invented in 1673.)”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

“...as far as we are capable of knowledge we sin in neglecting to acquire it...”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, New Essays on Human Understanding