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“Politicians lie for a living. That is accepted the world over. sycophancy too. But why should we normalise bullshit for the sake of defending the said liar? Come on!”

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“Серйозні, вдумливі матеріали відступили перед порожніми дурничками. Новини стають дедалі ангажованішими. Перед ведуть неправда, дезінформація й феки.”

“Горе тим, хто намагається стримати революцію в царині інформаційних технологій.”

“Інтернет змінив спосіб вироблення, поширення й споживання інформації. Він вплинув на те, як ми здійснюємо дослідження, дізнаємося про поточні події, взаємодіємо з друзями, розважаємося — і навіть думаємо.”

“Інтернет-сайти створюють не для тривалих стосунків із клієнтами: їхня мета — змусити клікнути посилання, причому просто зараз.”

“Nationally, the voter was given a choice between Johnson and Goldwater. If an individual shared Goldwater's hostility to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, or feared a Negro moving into the neighborhood or getting a job, he could vote for Goldwater and express these sentiments, but at a price: i.e., he would be casting his ballot for a man who was also utterly irresponsible on the question of war and peace; whose primitive, contradictory economics threatened economic crisis and depression; and whose mental powers seemed to be those of an amiable incompetent.”

“In every crisis in his life, he had worked until the weight dropped off his body and his eyes sunk into his head and his face grew gaunt and cavernous and he trembled with fatigue and the rashes on his hands grew raw and angry, and whenever, at the end of one more in a very long line of very long days, he realized that there was still one more task that should be done, he would turn without a word hinting at fatigue to do it, to do it perfectly. His career had been a story of manipulation, deceit, and ruthlessness, but it had also been a story of an intense physical and spiritual striving that was utterly unsparing; he would sacrifice himself to his ambition as ruthlessly as he sacrificed others. If you did “everything, you’ll win.” To Lyndon Johnson, “everything” meant literally that: absolutely anything that was necessary. If some particular effort might help, that effort would be made, no matter how difficult making it might be.”