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A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.

— The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1) por Douglas Adams

He’d operated on an almost permanent adrenaline high, a byproduct of youth and proficiency, jacked into a custom cyberspace deck that projected his disembodied consciousness into the consensual hallucination that was the matrix.

— Neuromancer por William Gibson (Sprawl Trilogy, #1)

You did not do as I asked. You have never treated Harry as a son. He has known nothing but neglect and often cruelty at your hands. The best that can be said is that he has at least escaped the appalling damage you have inflicted upon the unfortunate boy sitting between you.

— Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince por J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter, #6)

Google made a mistake. So do judges. When judges make mistakes, you have the theoretical possibility of appealing. When Google makes a mistake, you don’t even get that theoretical chance. If we are to punish people who traffic in child sex abuse materials (and I think we should), those punishments should be meted out by a publicly accountable justice system after a fair trial that adheres to the bedrock principles of due process. It shouldn’t be meted out by unaccountable corporate giants who get to punish you in ways that far exceed any court’s reach.

— The Internet Con por Cory Doctorow

Virginia Woolf warned us that a woman’s writing will not be adequately judged so long as the standards of judgment are established and defended by men.

— The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition (Earthsea Cycle) por Ursula K. Le Guin