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by nonrandomstring 876 days ago
Here's a quote from one of the greats that comes to my mind whenever an author says "I regret creating that" (and that includes you Sir Tim Berners-Lee)

   "You know, Nietzsche didn’t, you know, from his drawing room give
    birth to a century of cannonade, slaughter, concentration camps,
    CIA subterfuge, the raping and the murdering of nuns, the bombing
    of continents, the despoiling of beaches and the ruin of a planet!
    Four or five pedants do not have that much power, and never have."
    - R. Roderick
Clockwork Orange (and the lesser Kubrick film) was what it was. It's still powerful and relevant today.

In fact I watched it recently to steal a sample for a track I'm working on... "When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man"

Still potent stuff.