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description: All the quotes used on each issue of the OSINT eZine.
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# Quotes

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_The price of freedom is eternal vigilance._

_\~Thomas Jefferson, American statesman._

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_The magical thinking encouraged by any belief in the supernatural, combined with the vilification of rationality and skepticism, is more conducive to conspiracy theories than it is to productive political debate._

_\~Wendy Kaminer, American lawyer and writer._

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_The defence, like the attack, is a team effort; everyone has to participate._

_\~Hansi Flick, German football manager._

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_Doing is a quantum leap from imaging._

_\~Barbara Sher, American businesswoman._

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_Our aim is to develop affectionate robots that can make people smile._

_\~Masayoshi Son, Japanese businessman._

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_Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.._

_\~Zora Neale Hurston, American anthropologist and writer._

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_Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values._

_\~14th Dalai Lama, Tibetan Spiritual Leader._

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_The fear isn't that big data discriminates. We already know that it does. It's that you don't know if you've been discriminated against._

_\~Kate Crawford, Australian AI researcher._

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_Success is a pile of failure that you are standing on._

_\~Dave Ramsey, American radio personality._

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_There's a thin line between being a hero, and being a memory._

_\~Optimus Prime, Supreme Commander of the Autobots._

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_Libraries were full of ideas — perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons._

_\~Sarah J. Maas, American Author._

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_The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty._

_\~James Madison, American Statesman._

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_Privacy - like eating and breathing - is one of life's basic requirements._

_\~Katherine Neville, American Author._

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_All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret._

_\~Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian Writer._

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_Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door._

_\~Coco Chanel, French Fashion designer._

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_It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation._

_\~Herman Melville, American novelist._

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_Hope is like the sun. If you only believe it when you see it you’ll never make it through the night._

_\~Leia Organa, Princess of Alderaan._

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_The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom._

_\~Isaac Asimov, American writer._

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_You can do an OSINT investigation on almost anything!_

_\~Sofia Santos, Senior OSINT Analyst._

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_The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams._

_\~Eleanor Roosevelt, American politician._

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_The day you plant the seed is not the day you eat the fruit. Be patient and stay the course._

_\~Fabienne Fredrickson, American entrepreneur._

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_Contrary to popular belief, the best way to climb to the top of the ladder is to take others up there with you._

_\~Maria Eitel, Journalist._

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_Books don’t need batteries._

_\~Nadine Gordimer, South African writer and Nobel Prize._

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_Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing._

_\~Benjamin Franklin, politician._

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_Technology is not just about gadgets and algorithms; it's about empowering humanity to shape a better future._

_\~Reshma Saujani, American lawyer and founder of "Girls Who Code"._

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_The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games._

_\~Eugene Jarvis, American game designer._

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_When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow._

_\~Ursula K. Le Guin, American writer._

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_Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic._

_\~Arthur C. Clarke, English science-fiction writer._

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_Be yourself; everyone else is already taken._

_\~Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright._

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_ChatGPT is incredibly limited, but good enough at some things to create a misleading impression of greatness. it’s a mistake to be relying on it for anything important right now. it’s a preview of progress; we have lots of work to do on robustness and truthfulness._

_\~Sam Altman, American entrepreneur, CEO of OpenAI._

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_What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking — there's the real danger._

_\~Frank Herbert, American writer and author of Dune._

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_If you don't know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result._

_\~Richard Dawkins, British author._

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_Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough._

_\~Elon Musk, South African Business Entrepreneur._

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_Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly._

_\~Roger Ebert, American film critic and screenwriter._

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_Bitcoin may be the TCP/IP of money._

_\~Paul Buchheit, American computer engineer, creator of Gmail._

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_Web3 is to Web2 what Punk Rock is to Disco Music._

_\~Simone Puorto, Italian tech journalist._

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_Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time._

_\~Terry Pratchett, English author and humorist._

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_It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button._

_John Brunner, British science fiction author._

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_Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding._

_\~Albert Einstein, German theoretical physicist._

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_Computers are useless. They can only give you answers._

_\~Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor._

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_Anything that can be automatically done **for** you can be automatically done **to** you._

_\~Jerry Pournelle, American journalist and science fiction author._

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_A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequila._

_\~Mitch Ratcliffe. American author._

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_Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one._

_\~Neil Gaiman. English author._

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_By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it._

_\~Eliezer Yudkowsky, American artificial intelligence theorist and writer._

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_Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months._

_\~Clifford Stoll, American astronomer._

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_A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human._

_\~Alan Turing, English mathematician and cryptographer._

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_Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window._

_\~Steve Wozniak, American computer programmer, co-founder of Apple._
