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Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation

by Blake J. Harris (Goodreads Author)

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Jun 11, 2019 10:14AM

Eric’s Quotes

“I have always found that there’s an inverse relationship between the number of people in a room and the amount of useful work that can be done.”
― John Scalzi, The End of All Things

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“It’s not a bad idea.” “It’s a terrible idea,” Oi said. “It just has the advantage of being better than the other option.”
― John Scalzi, The End of All Things

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“We buy time where we may.” “You bought yourself time,” Oi agreed. “I don’t think it’s of very good quality.”
― John Scalzi, The End of All Things

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“[I]t was designed to operate with minimal assistance from humans, who were without exception the moving part most likely to fail.”
― John Scalzi, The End of All Things

tags: human-error, weak-link

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“There’s a saying: “May you live in interesting times.” To begin, it’s a curse. “Interesting” in this case uniformly means “Oh god, death is raining down upon us and we shall all perish wailing and possibly on fire.”
― John Scalzi, The End of All Things

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