“La rivoluzione digitale potrebbe consistere nel trasformare i lavoratori salariati in proletari del cloud, che vivono una vita sempre più precaria e stressante sotto il controllo invisibile di capi algoritmici.”
Source: Tecnofeudalesimo: Cosa ha ucciso il capitalismo
“If mankind conversed only of the things they understood, half the words might be struck out of the dictionaries.”
Source: Homeward Bound: Or, the Chase, a Tale of the Sea. In Two Volumes. Vol. I
“The mariners all ‘gan work the ropes,
where they were wont to do:
They raised their limbs like lifeless tools -
We were a ghastly crew.”
“I have graven it within the hills, and my vengeance upon the dust within the rock.”
“They argued because they liked argument, liked the swift run of the unfettered mind along the paths of possibility, liked to question what was not questioned.”
Source: The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
“It reminds me of a friend of mine who was very interested in a French philosophy called deconstruction. He advertised to me as one of deconstruction's selling points that deconstruction deconstructs itself. I couldn't help responding, if deconstruction deconstructs itself, why bother reading its long, boring books? Why not go for a jog instead, or reread one of Patrick O'Brian's tremendous tales of the sea?”
“I must, indeed, have had a sorry taste to be intimate with a blotched wretch like you.”
Source: Snarleyyow or the Dog Fiend
“Such was the fate of Mr Vanslyperken, who was now seized by the crowd, buffeted, and spit upon, and dragged to the parish pump, there being, fortunately for him, no horse-pond near. After having been well beaten, pelted with mud, his clothes torn off his back, his hat taken away and stamped upon, he was held under the pump and drenched for nearly half-an-hour, until he lay beneath the spout in a state of complete exhaustion”
Source: Snarleyyow: Or, The Dog Fiend. An Historical Novel, Volume 1
“The old woman was astonished; and having some gin in her cupboard, revived him by administering a small quantity, and, in the course of half-an-hour, Vanslyperken could tell his story; but all the consolation he received from the old beldame was, "Serve you right too, for being such an ass.”
Source: Snarleyyow or the Dog Fiend
“And, as Vanslyperken recalled his misfortunes, so did his love increase for the animal who was the cause of them. Why so, we cannot tell, except that it has been so from the beginning, is so now, and always will be the case, for the best of all possible reasons--that it is human nature.”
Source: Snarleyyow or the Dog Fiend