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“Here we go,” Fergus said. “If this doesn’t work, it’s been a pleasure. And I almost mean that without sarcasm.” “We feel exactly the same about you,” Mari said.
“Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born.”
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“A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior.”
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“I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged.”
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“There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.”
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“For me, the best thing about Cyberpunk is that it taught me how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to terrify me. Now I just imagine the whole thing is two miles below the moon’s surface, and that half the people’s right-brains have been eaten by roboticized steel rats. And suddenly it’s interesting again.”
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