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Book cover for The Creative Gene: How books, movies, and music inspired the creator of Death Stranding and Metal Gear Solid
To live is to fall into many pits. As long as you are walking forward, you will fall into a pit. In that case, should we not try to find the best life in our current pit? Rather than accepting it as it is, or escaping it, or lashing out ...more
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Pablo Servigne
“Nous avons créé (surtout nos ancêstres) des systèmes gigantesques et monstreux qui sont devenus indispensables au maintain des conditions de vie de milliards de personnes.”
Pablo Servigne, Comment tout peut s'effondrer : Petit manuel de collapsologie à l'usage des générations présentes

Austin Grossman
“Computers had their origin in military cryptography—in a sense, every computer game represents the commandeering of a military code-breaking apparatus for purposes of human expression.”
Austin Grossman, You

Italo Calvino
“You're the sort of person who, on principle, no longer expects anything of anything. There are plenty, younger than you or less young, who live in the expectation of extraordinary experiences: from books, from people, from journeys, from events, from what tomorrow has in store. But not you. You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst.”
Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

Yanis Varoufakis
“It is at this point in the book that the author famously laments that despite our ability to bring food from the earth, we are incapable of creating a system in which the hungry can be fed.”
Yanis Varoufakis, Μιλώντας στην κόρη μου για την οικονομία

John Green
“I don't mind worriers," I said. "Worrying is the correct worldview. Life is worrisome.”
John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

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