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“When significant numbers of people see their standards of living fall despite an ever-growing economic pie, it threatens the social contract of the economy and even the social fabric of society.”
― Erik Brynjolfsson, Race Against The Machine

“You’re bigger than the toys. We are always bigger than the things we make. Put them away. Make something new with your life, with your own mind and hands.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, The Quantum Thief

“I understood Mark’s coldness: This company was his baby, and he had always been in control of it and, while we worked there, of us. It must be strange to see your dependents—people whose careers you have made possible, even as their long hours of work have helped your company prosper—asserting independence.”
― Katherine Losse, The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network

“Building and maintaining consensus while collaborating is the hardest part of building software.”
― Russell Jurney, Agile Data Science: Building Data Analytics Applications with Hadoop