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“The internet is designed to move bits and not to decide which bits to move, which bits to block, and whether anyone should have to pay for receiving particular bits”

“Laughter is the sound of sudden knowledge”

“We don't use a systematic set of steps for evaluating what should be believed. Instead, we do on the Web what we do in the real world: we listen to the context, allow ourselves to be guided by details that we think embody the whole, and decide how much of what this person says we're going to believe.”

"Newton's idea of space as a giant container has been replaced by the idea…that the matter of the universe creates the space it's in…the question of what's beyond the universe doesn't make sense."