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The Maniac

by Benjamín Labatut

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Aug 01, 2026 05:15PM

Beau’s Quotes

“Your now is not your forever.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

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“We don’t constrain our mental powers when we store new long-term memories. We strengthen them. With each expansion of our memory comes an enlargement of our intelligence. The Web provides a convenient and compelling supplement to personal memory - but when we start using the Web as a substitute for personal memory, by bypassing the inner processes of consolidation, we risk emptying our minds of their riches.”
― Nicholas G. Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains

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“As the amount of code in a project grows, it gradually surpasses understanding. The amount of time it takes to figure out what to change just keeps increasing.”
― Michael C. Feathers, Working Effectively with Legacy Code

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“Metaphors failed him, then. He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

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“The internet, as its proponents rightly remind us, makes for variety and convenience; it does not force anything upon you. Only it turns out it doesn’t feel like that at all. We don’t feel as if we had freely chosen our online practices. We feel instead that they are habits we have helplessly picked up or that history has enforced, that we are not distributing our attention as we intend or even like to”
― Nicholas G. Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains

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