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to say that designers shouldn’t get political isn’t just naive, it’s revisionist. We were being political when we built those tools. Whether we did it on purpose or through ignorance is irrelevant. We did it.
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”
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“What piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving, how express and admirable in action, how like an angel in apprehension, how like a god! The beauty of the world. The paragon of animals. And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?”
― Hamlet
― Hamlet
“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.”
― Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
― Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“Comfort can be dangerous. Comfort provides a floor but also a ceiling.”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
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