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“Sometimes I think I’m crazy. I’m sitting at a casino table in Atlantic City, and everyone around me is motionless. I call this the Quiet, as though giving it a name makes it seem more real—as though giving it a name changes”
― Dima Zales, The Last Humans: The Complete Trilogy

“%seen_this_time, @new_urls); sub do_stuff { if (-e 'seen_last_time.dat')”
― Sean M. Burke, Perl & LWP: Fetching Web Pages, Parsing HTML, Writing Spiders & More

“that the hand is warm, rather than cold. When I was a kid, I expected people to feel cold in the Quiet, like stone statues. With the Professional’s hand moved away, I pick up his cards.”
― Dima Zales, The Last Humans: The Complete Trilogy

“that he asked to have input in designing a new version. I was both amused and willing, so I readily assented. I ended up having more than forty interviews and conversations with him. Some were formal ones in his Palo Alto living room,”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs