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“To the people who were going to be replaced by machines, maybe. A third one, eh? In a way, I guess the third one’s been going on for some time, if you mean thinking machines. That would be the third revolution, I guess—machines that devaluate human thinking. Some of the big computers like EPICAC do that all right, in specialized fields.”
― Player Piano
― Player Piano
“Isn’t it awful what we’ll do in this world to feel wanted?”
― The Princess Bride
― The Princess Bride
“Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“Cheer up, the worst is yet to come!”
― Those Extraordinary Twins
― Those Extraordinary Twins
“My grandfather ran off the V-2 rocket film a dozen times and then hoped that someday our cities would open up more and let the green and the land and the wilderness in more, to remind people that we're allotted a little space on earth and that we survive in that wilderness that can take back what it has given, as easily as blowing its breath on us or sending the sea to tell us we are not so big. When we forget how close the wilderness is in the night, my grandpa said, someday it will come in and get us for we will have forgotten how terrible and real it can be. You see?”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
Cassandra’s 2024 Year in Books
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502 books
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709 books
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475 books
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