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The Circle

Now a Major Motion Picture starring Emma Watson and Tom Hanks. A bestselling dystopian novel that tackles surveillance, privacy and the frightening intrusions of technology in our lives. When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the

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Dave Eggers (7)Mercer (2)

“Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?”

— Dave Eggers, amazon.com

Tagged: Goals, Achievement, Path

“Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?”

— Dave Eggers, amazon.com

Tagged: Career, Dreams, goal, Career Advice, career path

“The elegance of it all, the ideological purity of the Circle, of real transparency, gave her peace, a warming feeling of logic and order.”

— Dave Eggers, amazon.com

Tagged: Logical Purity, Descriptions of the Danger of Organization, Archive Fever

“You’re gonna save all the souls. You’re gonna get everyone in one place, you’re gonna teach them all the same things. There can be one morality, one set of rules. Imagine!”

— Dave Eggers, amazon.com

Tagged: Secular Theology, Transparency, Ethics

“Your tools have elevated gossip, hearsay and conjecture to the level of valid, mainstream communication.”

— Dave Eggers, Mercer, amazon.com

Tagged: Gawking, Gawker, Here Come Everyone, Mobs Rule, Interent Culture

“We are not meant to know everything, Mae. Did you ever think that perhaps our minds are delicately calibrated between the known and the unknown? That our souls need the mysteries of night and the clarity of day? You people are creating a world of ever-present daylight, and I think it will burn us al…”

— Dave Eggers, Mercer, amazon.com

Tagged: Knowledge, Epistemology, Too Much Information, Information Overload

“Under the guise of having every voice heard, you create mob rule, a filterless society where secrets are crimes.”

— Dave Eggers, amazon.com

Tagged: Mobs, All Voices Heard, Interent Trolls