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" For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. "

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" Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do. "

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" I have rooms full of little dongly things and don't want any more. Half the little dongly things I've got, I don't even know what gizmo they're for. More importantly, half the gizmos I've got, I don't know where their little dongly thing is. "

" I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in. "

" There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit. "

" You live and learn. At any rate, you live. "

" Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'trust' what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do. "

" I used to be a great fan of doing crosswords. When you're fiddling around with anagrams, you get wonderful jumbles of syllables that become interesting. "

" Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. "

" Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? "

" One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no 'them' out there. It's just an awful lot of 'us.' "

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" It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. "

" Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn't like it, it is it. "

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" Life is wasted on the living. "

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" It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. "

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" I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously. "

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