"Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price."

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This quotation examines the core nature of Technology as articulated by Bill Keller. Within historical and literary traditions, reflections on Technology provide actionable mental models, challenging individuals to evaluate personal ethics, self-discipline, and daily actions.

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About Bill Keller

Bill Keller is an American journalist. He was the founding editor-in-chief of The Marshall Project, a nonprofit that reports on criminal justice in the United States. Previously, he was a columnist for The New York Times, and served as the paper's executive editor from July 2003 until September 2011. On June 2, 2011, he announced that he would step down from the position to become a full-time writer. Jill Abramson replaced him as executive editor.

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"I think there's been a decline in the public's access to what's being done with their tax dollars, what's being done in their name. I hope that that will be repaired."

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"I don't think that there is absolute freedom of the press. We operate under laws - against libel, for instance. The idea that there is some absolute press freedom is kind of a myth."

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"My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion."

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"To build software, you have to be a little bit crazy."

— Larry Ellison
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"If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan."

— Alan Perlis
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"I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust."

— Carly Fiorina
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"The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it."

— Edward R. Murrow
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