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“The purpose of abstracting is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.”
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“Programming, when stripped of all its circumstantial irrelevancies, boils down to no more and no less than very effective thinking so as to avoid unmastered complexity, to very vigorous separation of your many different concerns.”
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“For every subtle and complicated question, there is a perfectly simple and straightforward answer, which is wrong. —”
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
“We have become a civilization based on work—not even “productive work” but work as an end and meaning in itself.”
― Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
― Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
“What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces where even when there’s nothing for them to do, they still can’t admit it openly.”
― Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
― Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
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