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One form of math denial is the belief in the ability to make computers that prevent copyright infringement. Computers only ever work by making copies: restricting copying on the internet is like restricting wetness in water.

— Cory Doctorow

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As someone once said, "Just because you're not interested in politics does not mean that politics won't be interested in you."

Any time someone puts a lock on something you own against your wishes, and doesn't give you the key, they're not doing it for your benefit.

All evil in the world is the result of an imbalance between the people who benefit from shenanigans and the people who get screwed by shenanigans.

Petard: A Tale of Just Deserts (2014)

Things are true or they aren’t, no matter how old the person saying them happens to be.

The Man Who Sold The Moon (2014)

Doesn’t matter how old the speaker is, it’s the words that matter.

The Man Who Sold The Moon (2014)

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Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

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If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite.

William Blake The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)

Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then such and such another proposition is true of that thing.

Bertrand Russell

The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.

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