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His Prince, Discourses and Florentine Histories were all written under Medici rule, and all these works, in different ways, convey a subtle message: beware, Florentines and readers everywhere, of placing too much hope in any one man,
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“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
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“Science is the only news. When you scan a news portal or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old he-said-she-said, the politics and economics the same cyclical dramas, the fashions a pathetic illusion of newness; even the technology is predictable if you know the science behind it. Human nature doesn't change much; science does, and the change accrues, altering the world irreversibly”
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“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
― Neuromancer
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“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
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“Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. When independent-thinking people (and here I do not include the corporate media) begin to rally under flags, when writers, painters, musicians, film makers suspend their judgment and blindly yoke their art to the service of the “Nation,” it’s time for all of us to sit up and worry.”
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Paul’s 2025 Year in Books
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