The Profound Treachery of Graffitied Glass
“Forget artificial intelligence – in the brave new world of big data, it’s artificial idiocy we should be looking out for.” —Tom Chatfield
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“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.” ― George Bernard Shaw
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“Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.” ―Henry Louis Gates Jr
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“I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.” ― Gustave Flaubert