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Plenty of folks oppose singular they due to their social conservatism, but some of the biggest grammar snobs in America actually come from the political left. Deborah Cameron has said that one of the first things she noticed upon joining
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“Boredom is the opposite of learning.”
― Theory of Fun for Game Design
― Theory of Fun for Game Design
“Compared to people living only a few generations ago, we have enormously greater opportunities to have a good time, yet there is no indication that we actually enjoy life more than our ancestors did. Opportunities alone, however, are not enough. We also need the skills to make use of them.”
― Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
― Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
“Like how money is just squiggles on paper or on a screen until it determines whether you can eat lunch, words are just meat twitches until they determine whether you can get a job—or whether someone will even deign to tell you where the shoe section is.”
― Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
― Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
“The tree with pagan roots continues to accept grafts.”
― Christmas at The New Yorker: Stories, Poems, Humor, and Art
― Christmas at The New Yorker: Stories, Poems, Humor, and Art
“Could we not put our tremendous computing power (both human and mechanical) to better use than upholding the prejudices of a bunch of aristocrats from the eighteenth century”
― Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
― Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
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