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“One must love everything.”
― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
― Albert Einstein

“Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things.”
― Ray Bradbury

“If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.”
― Woody Allen

“To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.”
― William Gibson

“Stand high long enough and your lightning will come.”
― William Gibson

“CPUs. Cayce Pollard Units. That’s what Damien calls the clothing she wears. CPUs are either black, white, or gray, and ideally seem to have come into this world without human intervention.

What people take for relentless minimalism is a side effect of too much exposure to the reactor-cores of fashion. This has resulted in a remorseless paring-down of what she can and will wear. She is, literally, allergic to fashion. She can only tolerate things that could have been worn, to a general lack of comment, during any year between 1945 and 2000. She’s a design-free zone, a one-woman school of anti whose very austerity periodically threatens to spawn its own cult.”
― William Gibson

“We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer