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“Did the humans go through this all day long? Were their enormous brains tormented with trivial facts they could neither understand nor forget? If so, it made sense that people like Daniel went insane.”

Okay, time to build some software projects.

The space pirates' sunjammer has black light sails, because of course it does! This is some awesome Age of Sail stuff, but in the far reaches of a vast, far future Sol system, I'm loving it.

Psst...this is my first ever Vonnegut...

So much science

“The whole notion of disruption is adolescent: it assumes that after the teenagers make a mess, the adults will come and clean it up.

“But there are no adults. We own this mess.”

"One novel known by millions of young Americans that offers an account of tyranny and resistance J.K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.' If you or your friends or your children did not read it that way the first time, then it bears reading again."

Yikes. Excerpt from a newspaper for German Jews, 1933:

"We do not subscribe to the view that Mr Hitler and his friends now finally in possession of the power they have so long desired, will implement the proposals circulating...they will not suddenly deprive German Jews of their constitutional rights, nor enclose them in ghettos, nor subject them to the jealous and murderous impulses of the mob."

Going slowly because I decided I would take a crap ton of notes.

Cool, I guess I should be good now and wait until the start of NaNoWriMo to read "week 1."

Cool, I guess I should be good now and wait until the start of NaNoWriMo to read "week 1."

"We believe that when we choose a laptop or a laundry detergent, plan a vacation, pick a stock, take a job, assess a sports star, make a friend, judge a stranger, and even fall in love, we understand the principal factors that influenced us. Very often nothing could be further from the truth. As a result, many of our most basic assumptions about ourselves, and society, are false."