"In a world in which men write thousands of books and one million scientific papers a year, the mythic bricoleur is the man who plays with all that information and hears a music inside the noise."

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Source : William Irwin Thompson (1980). “Passages about Earth: An Exploration of the New Planetary Culture”, HarperCollins

William Irwin Thompson

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“The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much.”
“This twenty-year-old boy was distinguished from childhood by strange qualities, a dreamer and an eccentric. A girl fell in love with him, and he went and sold her to a brothel...”
“I've worked over four dozen nine-to-five jobs before taking the chance to chase my dream of wanting to become an actor and filmmaker. Growing up in Brooklyn and Harlem, working at jobs like the bus company were great. I had benefits, a great salary, and security. But it wasn't my dream.”
“Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe.”
“Abortion restrictions 'reduce pregnant women to no more than fetal containers.'”
“No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful”

Source : "Ready Player One". Book by Ernest Cline, 2011.
“I never really lost a game in my career, sometimes I just ran out of time.”
“If I'm going to be totally honest, I don't think that smoking weed is that big a deal.”

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