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Algorithms To Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

by Brian Christian (Goodreads Author)

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Mar 28, 2026 08:09AM

“Sometimes I feel embarrassed telling you stuff like that because it just seems stupid. To be honest, I still look up to you a lot, I don't want you to think of me as, I don't know. Deluded.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

tags: depression, relationship

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“Husband runs off with a politician? Make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by mutated boa constrictor? Make good art. IRS on your trail? Make good art. Cat exploded? Make good art.”
― Neil Gaiman, The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

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“All the sugar that you have ever eaten was first made within a leaf.”
― Hope Jahren, Lab Girl

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“Generally I find men are a lot more concerned with limiting the freedoms of women than exercising personal freedom for themselves.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

tags: freedom, oppression

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“When you are old and grey and full of sleep’, it is good to have someone to lean on from time to time, and in that respect this agnostic has been blessed by the gods. I still value my solitude, but it is also nice to have someone tucking me into bed at night.”
― Ruskin Bond, Lone Fox Dancing: My Autobiography

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