Quotes About Control

As long as you're scared you're on the plantation.

Power. Like wine when you have it. Like poison when you lose it.

Power. Intoxicating. Like a fine wine.

It's bad enough sitting in a car, never mind driving it.

Oh, putrid puffballs! Stop winding us all up like this or I'll tie a knot in your tail!

Never develop a passion you can't afford. It'll eat your heart away like a bookworm.

The girl and the book?" Mo held Meggie close again. "Of course. Now Capricorn can be sure I'll do what he wants.

He's going to serve you up to the Adderhead on a platter made of ink. Resist it! It's not a pleasant feeling to read the words that guide your actions. No one knows that better than I do, but they didn't come true for me either. They only have as much power as you give them.

Deixe a raiva seguir seu curso ou ela pode consumir você.

Resa stroked the dried flower-heads. 'They obey you,' she said to the Prince, when the women had gone again. 'Why?' 'Oh, because they've chosen me as their leader,' replied the Prince. 'And because I'm a very good knife-thrower.

If you've never programmed a computer, you should. There's nothing like it in the whole world. When you program a computer, it does exactly what you tell it to do. It's like designing a machine — any machine, like a car, like a faucet, like a gas-hinge for a door — using math and instructions. It's awesome in the truest sense: it can fill you with awe.

Anytime someone puts a lock on something that belongs to you and doesn't give you a key, that lock is not there for your benefit.

The theory is that if the Internet can't be controlled, then copyright is dead. The thing is, the Internet is a machine for copying things cheaply, quickly, and with as little control as possible, while copyright is the right to control who gets to make copies, so these two abstractions seem destined for a fatal collision, right?

you want to be in charge of your machines, you have to learn to write code.

Digital locks are roach motels: copyrighted works check in, but they don't check out. Creators and investors lose control of their business—they become commodity suppliers for a distribution channel that calls all the shots. Anti-circumvention isn't copyright protection: it's middleman protection.

Impatience, not fear, is the mind-killer.

There are some factors you can control, and some you can't. Wishing things were different won't make them different.

A 'job creator' is someone who figures out how to threaten you with starvation unless you do something you don't want to do.

living people can sometimes change their situations, while dead ones can't change a fucking thing.

You never have to sit back and look at the people, the systems, the politics—just the technology that can be used to distort them to suit your needs.

It's way too late to decarbonize the surveillance economy.

If a paycheck could change your life, do you think they'd let you have one?

Computers can control you or they can lighten your work—if you want to be in charge of your machines, you have to learn to write code.

You know what is in Room 101, Winston. Everyone knows what is in Room 101.