Protocol Quotes

“I hope to show in this book that it is through protocol that one must guide one’s efforts, not against it.”
― Alexander R. Galloway, Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization

“Dividuation would thus be the opposite: the dissolving of individual identity into distributed networks of information.”
― Alexander R. Galloway, Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization

“Like the rhizome, each node in a distributed network may establish direct communication with another node, without having to appeal to a hierarchical intermediary. Yet in order to initiate communication, the two nodes must speak the same language. This is why protocol is important. Shared”
― Alexander R. Galloway, Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization

“The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, describes the DNS system as the “one centralized Achilles’ heel by which {the Web} can all be brought down or controlled.”
― Alexander R. Galloway, Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization

“This book is about a diagram, a technology, and a management style. The”
― Alexander R. Galloway, Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization