Very thoughtful and eloquent _rant_. The internet needs more of these. There are so many quotable quotes: > "Software is not neutral. Different software embed

Very thoughtful and eloquent _rant_. The internet needs more of these. There are so many quotable quotes: > "Software is not neutral. Different software embeds different philosophies, and these philosophies, as they become ubiquitous, become invisible." — Zadie Smith > People “reduce themselves” in order to make a computer’s description of them appear more accurate. “Information systems need to have information in order to run, but information underrepresents reality”. — Jaron Lanier in You Are Not a Gadget > “based on [a] philosophical mistake…the belief that computers can presently represent human thought or human relationships. These are things computers cannot currently do." — Jaron Lanier in You Are Not a Gadget > "Facebook: falsely jolly, fake-friendly, self-promoting, slickly disingenuous." — Zadie Smith > "Hollywood still believes that behind every mogul there’s an idée fixe." — Zadie Smith, on Erica and Zuckerberg > "Pay them. In the scheme of things it’s a parking ticket." — Junior Lawyer to Zuckerberg tl;dr: RTFA.