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“We sleep when we fall. We only sleep when we can’t move anymore. That’s juvenile. But it means everything. It’s the illusion of progress. Staying awake isn’t progress. The illusion is enough.”

You Shall Know Our Velocity! (2002)

“But that in any city, in any cluster of people, there a few people who are awake at this hour, who are both awake and dancing, and it’s here that we need to be. That if we are living as we were this week, that we had to be awake with the people who are still dancing.”

You Shall Know Our Velocity! (2002)

“What would transparency be if we could delete anything we felt was embarrassing in some way? You know we don't delete.”

Dave Eggers book The Circle

Eamon Bailey, to Mae; p. 372
The Circle (2013)

“We cannot fathom why people would stand across the street, easily a hundred feet away, when they could be so close, near us.
‘Suckers.’ I tell Toph, thumbing toward those watching from so far away. It is important, I feel, that the boy knows what suckers look like.”

A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius (2000)

“There are people who meet strangers and people, like me, who know only those they’ve known from birth”

You Shall Know Our Velocity! (2002)

“When everything is known, everything acceptable will be accepted.”

Dave Eggers book The Circle

Eamon Bailey, to Mae; pp. 372-372
The Circle (2013)

“I want you to connect these dots and see if you see what I see. Picture this. The Circle has been devouring all competitors for years, correct? It only makes the company stronger. Already 90 percent of the world's searches go through the Circle. Without competitors, this will increase. Soon it'll be nearly 100 percent. Now, you and I both know that if you can control the flow of information, you can control everything. You can control most of what anyone sees and knows. If you want to bury some piece of information, permanently, that's two seconds' work. If you want to ruin anyone, that's five minutes' work. How can anyone rise up against the Circle if they control all the information and access to it? They want everyone to have a Circle account, and they're well on their way to making it illegal not to. What happens then? What happens when they control all searches, and have full access to all data about every person? When they know every move everyone makes? When all monetary transactions, all health and DNA information, every piece of one's life, good or bad, when every word uttered flows through one channel?”

Dave Eggers book The Circle

Kalden/Ty, to Mae; pp. 487-488
The Circle (2013)

“What did we want? We want the world smaller and bigger and just the same but advancing. We don’t know what we want.”

You Shall Know Our Velocity! (2002)

“Matter of fact, the first three or four chapters are all some of you might want to bother with. That gets you to page 123 or so, which is a nice length, a nice novella sort of length.”

A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius (2000)

“"I understand that we're obligated, as humans, to share what we see and know. And that all knowledge must be democratically accessible."
"It's the natural state of information to be free."”

Dave Eggers book The Circle

Mae and Bailey; p. 304
The Circle (2013)

“We’d have a motherfucking shitload of dogs! Horses. Peacocks. Oh to live among peacocks. I’d seen them once in person and they defied so many laws of color and gravity that they had to be made geniuses waiting to take over everything.”

You Shall Know Our Velocity! (2002)