Alex Feinberg
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One could easily make the case that imperialism was invented within the 200 mm isohyet, from the time that Sargon the Great founded his multiethnic Akkadian empire around 2200 B.C.E.
“Things were launching themselves from the ornate sunburst spires, glittering leech shapes made of shifting planes of light. There were hundreds of them, rising in a whirl, their movements random as windblown paper down dawn streets. “Glitch systems,” the voice said.”
― Neuromancer
― Neuromancer
“world seems filled with people who are genuinely, deeply interested in physics but whose lives have taken them in different directions. This book is for all of us.”
― Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum
― Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum
“There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“Our greatest sufferings do not lie in the present, as intuitive representations or immediate feeling, but rather in reason, as abstract concepts, tormenting thoughts.”
― The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
― The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
“While Man's desires and aspirations stir, He cannot choose but err.”
― Faust
― Faust
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