As the security expert Bruce Schneier wrote recently, it isn’t that the Internet has been penetrated by the surveillance state; it’s that the Internet, in effect, is a surveillance state.
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qotd May 31, 2013 || 9:04 PM
You have to accept it, because it’s the way nature works. If you wanna know the way nature works, you look at it carefully, and that’s the way it looks! You don’t like it? Go somewhere else! To another universe, where the rules are simpler, philosophically more pleasing, psychologically easy. I can’t help it, ok? If I’m gonna tell you honestly what the world looks like, I can only tell you what it looks like, I cannot make it any simpler, I’m not gonna fake it . . .
McDonald’s Theory — What I Learned Building… — Medium
qotd April 29, 2013 — writing
Take a pencil to write with on aeroplanes. Pens leak. But if the pencil breaks, you can’t sharpen it on the plane, because you can’t take knives with you. Therefore: take two pencils.
Margaret Atwood
via Margaret Atwood’s Ten Rules for Writing Fiction « Aerogramme Writers’ Studio.
qotd April 25, 2013
Madeleine Albright, official secretary of State portrait (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.
