💬 Quotes

"We thought that we search Google, but now Google searches us."

"The fundamental asymmetry is rooted in the distribution of knowledge. They know everything about us, while we know almost nothing about their lives."

"The goal is to automate us. In order to be competitive, machine processes must be fed with continuous streams of new behavioral modification."

"Privacy is no longer a private right or a private good; it is the frontline of a struggle for the future of human autonomy."

"If the digital metier is the new home of human society, then surveillance capitalism is the landlord that takes over our lives without our consent."

"Law is not a set of answers; it is a way of thinking about problems."

"To be a good lawyer, you must learn to care deeply about things that do not matter to you personally, and to detach yourself from things that matter deeply to you."

"Reading a case is not like reading a novel; you are not looking for a plot, you are looking for a reason."

"The law is rarely black and white. It exists in the grey, and your job is to find the arguments that give that grey some shape and form."

"Hard work is important, but smart work—knowing when to stop, when to reflect, and when to question—is what separates the exceptional student from the merely diligent one."

"You do not study law to become a repository of rules, but to become an architect of arguments."

"The past doesn't matter. Only the future counts."

"Prophecy is merely things that are going to happen. People always get the notion that because something is foreordained, it's somehow untouchable. It isn't. It's just that people usually lack the courage to change it."

"Magic isn't a thing in itself. It's just a way of doing things that ordinary people can't manage."

"There is a strange sort of comfort in the realization that you are not the master of your own destiny, but merely an instrument in the hands of something much greater."

"We all have things we'd rather not look at, Garion. The trick is to face them anyway, because if you don't, they'll sneak up behind you when you least expect it."

"A horse is a horse, but a good horse is a friend who happens to have four legs and a tail."

"La psicología oscura no siempre se manifiesta con violencia explícita; a menudo opera en las sombras de la manipulación sutil, donde la víctima cree que está tomando sus propias decisiones."

"Quien conoce tus debilidades emocionales posee las llaves de tu voluntad, pues el miedo y la necesidad de validación son las herramientas más eficaces del control mental."

"El gaslighting destruye la realidad de la víctima desde adentro, haciendo que dude de su propia memoria, de su percepción y, en última instancia, de su propia cordura."