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“Envy” is not the emotion I have in mind, but it is the clearest manifestation of an emotion that has remained nameless; it is the only element of a complex emotional sum that men have permitted themselves to identify. Envy is regarded by
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“The few Commodore employees who supported the VIC project gained power within the company beyond their official title.”
― Commodore: A Company on the Edge
― Commodore: A Company on the Edge
“I-I am going to be a storm-a flame-
I need to fight whole armies alone;
I have ten hearts; I have a hundred arms;
I feel too strong to war with mortals-
BRING ME GIANTS!”
― Cyrano de Bergerac
I need to fight whole armies alone;
I have ten hearts; I have a hundred arms;
I feel too strong to war with mortals-
BRING ME GIANTS!”
― Cyrano de Bergerac
“What altruism demands is the payment of a debt—an unchosen moral debt you owe to others.”
― In Defense of Selfishness: Why the Code of Self-Sacrifice is Unjust and Destructive
― In Defense of Selfishness: Why the Code of Self-Sacrifice is Unjust and Destructive
“Commodore did not have a reputation for fun and games in 1980—they were CBM, the business machine company.”
― Commodore: A Company on the Edge
― Commodore: A Company on the Edge
“my brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought processes were being engulfed by a toxic and unnameable tide that obliterated any enjoyable response to the living world.”
― Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
― Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
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