I'm a PhD student in IST at Penn State. My research interests focus on the nexus of cognition, culture, philosophy, and technology, and are generally apparent in the content of this blog. Read more about me. I can be reached at djsaab@djsaab.info or djsaab@gmail.com.
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Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never be. So the Galapagos Islands could be hell in one moment and heaven in the next, and Julius Caesar could be a statesman in one moment and a butcher in the next, and Ecuadorian paper money could be traded for food, shelter, and clothing in one moment and line the bottom of a birdcage in the next, and the universe could be created by God Almighty in one moment and by a big explosion in the next— and on and on.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Galapagos, 1985