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“It’s hard to believe that there was once a time when consumer technology solved problems we actually had.”

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Molly Mary O’Brien in Dirt, via The Mortar

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“The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there. Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value.”

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Zen and the Art of...

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A song of yearning and hope. We’ll gather lilacs was written by Ivor Novello for his musical Perchance to Dream.

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youtube.com/...

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Ray Bradbury talks about Mr Electrico, who appears as a character in Something Wicked This Way Comes: www.wired.com/2012/06/m…

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(Discovered via robinsloan.com)

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…your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should.

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Jeff Goldblum as Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park

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“I have the right to do anything”, you say - but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything” - but not everything is constructive.

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St Paul’s First Epistle to the Corinthians

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…what we did, or I did actually, was find the Catholic index of the banned books that you were not allowed to read - and read them all. And if you wanted to know how come I became so well educated, that is how.

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Marianne Faithfull, (Marianne in Paris): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/pl…

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I often think of this brief near-future conversation in William Gibson’s The Peripheral:

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“You have Badger?”
\n“Music?”
\n“A site. Keeps track of your friends and stuff.”
\n“‘Social media’?”
\n“I guess so.”
\n“It was an artifact of relatively low connectivity. If I remember correctly, you already have less of it than there was previously.”

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“…writing is living, and reflecting that world on the page. It’s not sitting at my computer and trying to find pithy ways to fix everything. It’s doing, being, caring, making, in person or on the streets, or even online. It’s then taking that feeling and putting it on the page.”

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“…being a writer involves looking up from the confines of this document, meeting the world where it is and engaging with it. And then taking that back on to the page.”

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Nikesh Shulka\nnikesh.substack.com/p/does-an…

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No year's resolutions: markbridge.net

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