"All great art is born of the metropolis."

-- Ezra Pound

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“If the Presidents Club had a seal, around the ring would be three words: cooperation, competition, and consolation. On the one hand, the presidents have powerful motivesâ€”personal and patrioticâ€”to help one another succeed and comfort one another when they fail. But at the same time they all compete for historyâ€™s blessing.”

Source : Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy (2012). “The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity”, p.524, Simon and Schuster
“A model is such a fascinating toy that you fall in love with your creation.”
“The reason I went to an all-boys Catholic school was because they had the best football team. We won the state championship my junior year. It was super-competitive. We lost in the semifinals my senior year, and it still haunts me.”
“I feel like the smartest people in my field are busy reinforcing the old models with new technology.”
“There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.”
“I was taking chemical engineering. But I went into the army after that. When I came out of the army, I was a different person. I met a lot of good jazz players in the army.”
“And in this game of life, we all search for ourselves. When I say selves, I mean â€˜inner selvesâ€™, the thing that created the life in the first place. Now consciously, most of us are not aware of this. But if youâ€™re searching for happiness; if youâ€™re searching for tranquility; if youâ€™re searching just to have a nice, peaceful, loving, understanding life... in actual fact, your searching for your inner self.”
“I thought Out of Action was better as a catalogue than the honeycomb because the honeycomb was like walking into one compartment and then another compartment.”

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