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“Many people think that the idea is the difficult part of writing a story, and this can be true. But there is another challenge too: finishing the story.”
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“I'm the only boss in the world who boosts a person's future status by firing them.”
― Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again
― Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again
“[W]ith world electricity consumption pushing 2 terawatts, it would take a hundred million Yodas to meet our demands.”
― What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
― What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
“They think that successful diplomacy requires years of experience and an understanding of all the nuances that have to be carefully considered before reaching a conclusion. Only then do these pinstriped bureaucrats consider taking action.”
― Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again
― Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again
“[L]iking" something is very important evolutionarily, because most things are harmful to us. Of the millions of objects that we bump into every day, only a handful are beneficial to us. Hence to "like" something is to make a decision between one out of the tiny fraction of things that can help us over against the millions of things that might harm us.”
― Physics of the Impossible
― Physics of the Impossible
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