“It can take years of slogging to learn to feign respect for hollow authority.”— Michael Lewis, amazon.com
“It is not punishment that gives discipline its authority, but it is punishment that prevents discipline from losing its authority.”— Emile Durkheim, amazon.com
“The network is still controlled centrally by an authority, but it functions in a decentralized way.”— Douglas Rushkoff, amazon.com
“Language is not a protocol legislated by an authority but rather a wiki that pools the contributions of millions of writers and speakers, who ceaselessly bend the language to their needs and who inexorably age, die, and get replaced by their children, who adapt the language in their turn.”— Steven Pinker, amazon.com
“Once the Author is gone, the claim to 'decipher' a text becomes quite useless. To give an Author to a text is to impose upon that text a stop clause, to furnish it with a final signification, to close the writing.”— Roland Barthes, tbook.constantvzw.org