“Many libraries are digging in their heels and saying, "We are not going to add filtering mechanisms."”
"A Library That Would Rather Block Than Offend" by Pamela Mendels, The New York Times (January 18, 1997)
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“A willing heart adds feather to the heel,
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Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) Scottish poet and dramatist
De Montfort (1798), Act III, scene 2; in A Series of Plays.
Alfred de Zayas (1947) American United Nations official
Statement by Alfred de Zayas statement on International Day of Peace, 21 September 2012 - http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=12557&LangID=E. <br class="br">2012
Nick Bostrom (1973) Swedish philosopher
"Nick Bostrom on the future, transhumanism and the end of the world" at Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (22 January 2007) http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/1142/ (ieet.org).
Adrianne Wadewitz (1977–2014) academic and Wikipedian
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Brigid Brophy (1929–1995) novelist, essayist
Quoted in Spiritual Ecology by Jim Nollman (Bantam Books, 1990), pp. 189-190.
“We must pass the great filter!”
Elon Musk (1971) South African-born American entrepreneur
Source: 21 June 2020 tweet https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1274614961151414273 and TechFilter https://techstartups.com/2020/06/21/elon-musk-we-must-pass-the-great-filter-social-media-is-a-limbic-amplifier-which-inherently-destabilizes-civilization
“If you're in a hole, don't dig, they say.”
John le Carré book The Mission Song
The Mission Song (2006)