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Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo

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Jun 02, 2025 09:22PM

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Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People

by Israel Zangwill

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You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place

by Janelle Shane

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Gnomon by Nick Harkaway

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System exists for the people, not the other way around, and in the end it is the people who are empowered—and required—by the machine to take any and all of the hard decisions that arise.

Eric’s Quotes

“Live with it long enough, and the unthinkable becomes normal.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

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“To paraphrase the very quotable Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, in the future there will be two types of jobs: people who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do. Wall”
― Antonio Garcia Martinez, Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

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“Never trust a candy house! It was only a matter of time before someone made them pay for what they thought they were getting for free. Why could nobody see this?”
― Jennifer Egan, The Candy House

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“You make what you measure, so measure carefully.”
― Antonio Garcia Martinez, Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

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“There is a time for any fledgling artist where one’s taste exceeds one’s abilities. The only way to get through this period is to make things anyway.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

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