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“I don't want to deny myself the pleasure of bodily involvement in my work, for that pleasure seems to me to be the sign of an indispensable integrity.”
― Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
― Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
“Take what was his. Prove you're not afraid. And that nor am I. We have the night," said James. "One night, before the end of the world.”
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“A computer destroys the sense of historical succession, just as do other forms of mechanization...Certain farms contain hospitably the remnants and reminders of the forest or prairie that preceded them. It is possible even for towns and cities to remember farms and forests or prairies. All good human work remembers its history.”
― Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
― Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
“So you can take a shadow,' said Will, 'you can pledge yourself to darkness, but I can't be trusted with my own power, even when I want to use it to do what's right?”
― Dark Heir
― Dark Heir
“We cannot think about the future, of course, for the future does not exist: the existence of the future is an article of faith...We do not need to plan or devise a 'word of the future'; if we take care of the world of the present, the future will have received full justice from us.”
― Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
― Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
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