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Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

~Douglas Macarthur

Topics: Always Been Behind Blindly Did Evil Foreign Going Home Monstrous Power Rally Some Terrible Up Us

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I always try to communicate to our people that we can never make enough money. We can never make enough profit.

~Douglas R. Oberhelman

Topics: Always Communicate Enough Enough Money Make Money Never Our Our People People Profit Try

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Most simply, 'present shock' is the human response to living in a world that's always on real time and simultaneous. You know, in some ways it's the impact of living in a digital environment, and in other ways it's just really what happens when you stop leaning so forward to the millennium and you finally arrive there.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Always Arrive Digital Environment Finally Forward Happens Human Impact Just Know Leaning Living Millennium Most Other Present Real Real Time Really Response Shock Simply Some Stop Time Ways World You

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Time has always been used against us on a certain level. The invention of the clock made us accountable to the employer, gave us a standard measure and stopwatch management, and it also led to the requirement of interest-bearing currency to grow over time, the requirement of the expansion of our economy.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Accountable Against Also Always Been Certain Certain Level Clock Currency Economy Employer Expansion Gave Grow Invention Led Level Made Management Measure Our Over Requirement Standard Time Us Used

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Jobs, as such, are a relatively new concept. People may have always worked, but until the advent of the corporation in the early Renaissance, most people just worked for themselves. They made shoes, plucked chickens, or created value in some way for other people, who then traded or paid for those goods and services.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Advent Always Chickens Concept Corporation Created Early Goods Jobs Just Made May Most New Other Paid People Relatively Renaissance Services Shoes Some Themselves Then Those Traded Until Value Way Who Worked

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Digital time does not flow; it flicks. Like any binary, discrete decision, it is either here or there. In contrast to our experience of the passing of time, digital time is always in the now, or in no time. It is still. Poised.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Always Any Binary Contrast Decision Digital Does Either Experience Flow Here Like No Time Now Our Passing Poised Still Time

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Since the dawn of the Internet, I have always operated under the assumption that if the government or corporations have technological capability to do something, they are doing it - whatever the laws we happen to know about might say.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: About Always Assumption Capability Corporations Dawn Doing Government Happen Internet Know Laws Might Operated Say Since Something Technological Whatever

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Like most early enthusiasts, I always thought the way the Internet encouraged multitasking made users less vulnerable to manipulation, while simultaneously exploiting even more of our brain's capacity than before. Apparently not.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Always Apparently Before Brain Capacity Early Encouraged Even Exploiting Internet Less Like Made Manipulation More Most Our Simultaneously Than Thought Users Vulnerable Way While

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While Google has given away pretty much everything it has to offer - from search and maps to email and apps - this has always been part of its greater revenue model: the pennies per placement it gets for seeding the entire Google universe of search and services with ever more targeted advertising.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Advertising Always Apps Away Been Email Entire Ever Everything Gets Given Google Greater Maps Model More Much Offer Part Pennies Per Placement Pretty Revenue Search Services Targeted Universe While

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But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.

~Douglas Sirk

Topics: Always Characters Failings Find Had Hard Look More Myself Never Part Than Them Too Wanted World

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