Evgeny Morozov Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with the fact that imperfection is an essential feature of liberal democracy.”

“I'm rarely invited to start-up parties, but who cares about their trinkets and apps anyway?”

“If you want to plan a revolution, you never do it in public - the authorities show up and arrest everyone.”

“The Internet can empower groups whose aims are in fact antithetical to democracy.”

“In Google's world, public space is just something that stands between your house and the well-reviewed restaurant that you are dying to get to.”

“There is something almost sacred about the Internet. I'm trying to secularize it.”

“I think governments will increasingly be tempted to rely on Silicon Valley to solve problems like obesity or climate change because Silicon Valley runs the information infrastructure through which we consume information.”

“A faithful lifehacker would use technology to avoid dead time and move on to the entertaining, more gratifying activities as soon as possible.”

“Most other documents leaked to WikiLeaks do not carry the same explosive potential as candid cables written by American diplomats.”

“Technology changes all the time; human nature, hardly ever.”