Assumed Consensus

Famous quotes containing the words assumed and/or consensus:

    “The matrix is God?”
    “In a manner of speaking, although it would be more accurate ... to say that the matrix has a God, since this being’s omniscience and omnipotence are assumed to be limited to the matrix.”
    “If it has limits, it isn’t omnipotent.”
    “Exactly.... Cyberspace exists, insofar as it can be said to exist, by virtue of human agency.”
    William Gibson (b. 1948)

    A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn’t believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.
    John Major (b. 1943)