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“Are all of us the same, I wonder, navigating our lives by interpreting the silences between words spoken, analysing the returning echoes of our memory in order to chart the terrain, in order to make sense of the world around us?”
― Twan Eng Tan, The Garden of Evening Mists

tags: communication, memory, silence

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“There are magnificent beings on this earth, son, that are walking around posing as humans.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

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“I don't have a plan, I'm afraid, but then, no one really does, no matter what they say.”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

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“The end result was that, just as Socialist regimes had created millions of dummy proletarian jobs, capitalist regimes somehow ended up presiding over the creation of millions of dummy white-collar jobs instead.”
― David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

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“Why is it that we reward programmers who work all night to remove the errors they put into their programs, or managers who make drastic organizational changes to resolve the crises their poor management has created? Why not reward the programmers who design so well that they don’t have dramatic errors, and managers whose organizations stay out of crisis mode? Organizing”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, Becoming a Technical Leader

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