“Technology presumes there’s just one right way to do things and there never is.” – Robert M. Pirsig

“The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?” Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“The forest is a peculiar organism of unlimited kindness and benevolence that makes no demands for its sustenance and extends generously the products of its life activity; it provides protection to all beings, offering shade even to the axe man who destroys it.” – Gautama Buddha

“When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side.” – Terrence

“The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.” – Solomon, Proverbs 22:7

“Whatever I did, I have proof I didn’t do it.” – White Collar

“Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.” – Pope Francis, 2013

“To those who think that all this sounds like science fiction, we point out that yesterday’s science fiction is today’s fact. The Industrial Revolution has radically altered man’s environment and way of life, and it is only to be expected that as technology is increasingly applied to the human body and mind, man himself will be altered as radically as his environment and way of life have been.” – Theodore Kaczynski

“You are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality

“The 20th century has been characterized by four developments of great importance: the growth of political democracy, the growth of Online Democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.” – Alex Carey