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Michael
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Sex may not be the answer to everything, but it’s also not the worst answer to a lot of things. It beat the hell out of anger and killing things.
“I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.”
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“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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“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.”
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“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
“I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged.”
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