“Silicon Valley doesn’t just reflect social norms — it actively shapes them in ways that are, for the most part, imperceptible”

“Perhaps it won’t be long before Google, not Gallup, is the most trusted name in polling”

“I took pictures of the panopticon while watching other tourists take pictures of the panopticon”

“the skeumorphic has begun to feel – in Lyotard’s terms – pornographic”

“styles change hands so quickly it is ludicrous to discuss who “thought of it” first, but simply who did it best”

“the Internet lets us say more, but what we actually end up saying is more distracting than informative”

“Think of our password problem as being like polio”

“the system they’d developed could raise $3 million from a single email”

“Silicon Valley imagines itself as the un-Chick-fil-A”

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