Even today the borders they’re seeing the physical borders are very different from the political borders. Because all those powers are so connected, and you cannot even see whose interest in what move.
AI WEIWEIThe IT people who have made such an effort to know and understand computer technology. They are frustrated that you cannot use Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in China. They are the first to recognize that the situation is terrible.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That’s dangerous for human development.
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Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.
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Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution.
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The jobs for 7 million university graduates every year, the immense corruption: Even some Western governments would have to scramble to find solutions to such problems.
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I don’t think there is a distinct change, because in the West I’m not a person who can serve his purpose.
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China didn’t want to lose the cutting edge of technology. So the idea of having a Sina Weibo was an attempt to compete with Twitter. However, it has no soul – which is freedom of expression. Nevertheless,
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If it’s possible, I will have some noodles in the morning and start talking to people, start to think about a few things in my head.
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I think it’s quite narrow-minded. There wasn’t much encouragement or opportunities for any artist – not just Chinese artists.
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Everything is art. Everything is politics.
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The society was so different [in China] – it was a feudalistic society. It didn’t come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.
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The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern and good intentions.
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I don’t think China has professional museums – not in the past, present, or near future.
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Liberty is about our rights to question everything.
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If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?
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I am everywhere and I am nowhere. That’s the beauty of the Internet Age.
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