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They bound the land with strongholds and arteries of military transport as a jailer binds a prisoner with manacles and chains.
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Neal Stephenson
“Intuition, like a flash of lightning, lasts only for a second. It generally comes when one is tormented by a difficult decipherment and when one reviews in his mind the fruitless experiments already tried. Suddenly the light breaks through and one finds after a few minutes what previous days of labor were unable to reveal.”
Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

Richard Powers
“A tree is a passage between earth and sky.”
Richard Powers, The Overstory

John Hodgman
“...normally I consider nostalgia to be a toxic impulse. It is the twinned, yearning delusion that (a) the past was better (it wasn´t) and (b) it can be recaptured (it can´t) that leads at best to bad art, movie versions of old TV shows, and sad dads watching Fox news. At worst it leads to revisionist, extremist politics, fundamentalist terrorism, and the victory-in Appalachia in particular-of a narcissist Manhattan cartoon maybe-millionaire and cramped-up city creep who, if he ever did go up to Rocky Top in real life, would never come down again.”
John Hodgman, Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches

Neal Stephenson
“with anything else under UNIX (of which Finux is a variant), there are a million options that only young, lonely, or obsessed people have the time and patience to explore.”
Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

Bertrand Russell
“Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.”
Bertrand Russell

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