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development would demand extraordinary amounts of money. Musk and Altman, who had until then both taken more hands-off approaches as cochairmen, each tried to install himself as CEO. Altman won out. Musk left the organization in early 2018
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“The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people thereby enliven and support well-located parks that can thus give back grace and delight to their neighborhoods instead of vacuity. ”
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.”
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“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“What becomes of someone who thinks he has all the power... and what becomes of someone who believes he has none?”
― Palestine
― Palestine
“Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable.”
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