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In the fall of 1963, the I.R.S. took a big step toward increasing the efficiency of its collections still further, and, by a feat worthy of the wolf in “Little Red Riding Hood,” it managed to present the step to the public as a ...more
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Timothy Geithner, STRESS TEST

Nick  Black
“...if you aren't, at any given time, scandalized by code you wrote five or even three years ago, you're not learning anywhere near enough”
Nick Black

Ariel Levy
“But I would be happier if my daughter and her friends were crashing through the glass ceiling instead of the sexual ceiling,' Jong continued. 'Being able to have an orgasm with a man you don't love or having Sex and the City on television, that is not liberation. If you start to think about women as if we're all Carrie on Sex and the City, well, the problem is: You're not going to elect Carrie to the Senate or to run your company. Let's see the Senate fifty percent female; let's see women in decision-making positions--that's power. Sexual freedom can be a smokescreen for how far we haven't come.”
Ariel Levy, Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture

Reza Negarestani
“In Hidden Writing, a main plot is constructed to camouflage other plots (which can register themselves as plot holes) by overlapping them with the surface (superficially dynamic plot) or the grounded theme. In terms of such a writing, the main plot is the map or the concentration blueprint of plot holes (the other plots).”
Reza Negarestani, Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials

Barbara Kingsolver
“I've always found people love you best if you can laugh at your own foolish misfortunes and keep mum about everyone else's”
Barbara Kingsolver, Prodigal Summer

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