The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly with peers over networks. Digital technology would create tremendous slack, allow us to apply its asynchronous, decentralized qualities to our own work and lives.
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I don't want to get in over my head because when you do tha... GABBY DOUGLAS Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves. GABBY DOUGLAS By now, you've probably caught on to something: my mother is always standing by with just the ri... GABBY DOUGLAS Gold medals are made out of your sweat, blood and tears, and effort in the gym every day, and sacrif... GABBY DOUGLAS I had to face a lot coming through this journey, a lot of sacrifices, difficulties, challenges, and ... GABBY DOUGLAS You know, God has a plan for me, and I'm going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and b... GABBY DOUGLAS Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to g... DOUGLAS MACARTHUR I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree. JAMES DOUGLAS How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consent... NORMAN DOUGLAS I'm not gonna lie, I love Usain Bolt and Serena Williams. What I love about Serena is that she j... GABBY DOUGLAS The simplest way to prepare Dungeness crabs is to boil them in the shell and set them in front of yo... TOM DOUGLAS Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are... MARY DOUGLAS My first job was on Broadway. Then I went into the Navy. When I came out of the Navy, I went back to... KIRK DOUGLAS Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR It is a fatal error to enter any war without the will to win it. •Douglas MacArthur All great... DOUGLAS MACARTHUR The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boas... DOUGLAS DUNN Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into somet... DOUGLAS ADAMS In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been wid... DOUGLAS ADAMS Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together... DOUGLAS JERROLD Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late. DOUGLAS JERROLD Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people
twice the time of others. DOUGLAS JERROLD Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately
it is wanted. Men pay severely wh... DOUGLAS JERROLD Honest bread is very well--it's the butter that makes the
temptation. DOUGLAS JERROLD I hope that no American . . . will waste his franchise and throw
away his vote by voting either for... DOUGLAS JERROLD A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands. DOUGLAS JERROLD After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than
in any other gown in the world. DOUGLAS JERROLD Greece's European neighbors were able step in and bolster the weak foundation on which Greece... DOUGLAS WILDER It's hard to legislate what people eat. People are getting fed up with being told what they can ... TOM DOUGLAS I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons. DOUGLAS ADAMS I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took... DOUGLAS ADAMS Time is bunk. DOUGLAS ADAMS For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. DOUGLAS ADAMS Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'tr... DOUGLAS ADAMS If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictu... DOUGLAS ADAMS The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong i... DOUGLAS ADAMS I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? DOUGLAS ADAMS