"Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it."

-- Clay Shirky

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“A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction?”
“A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women.”

Source : New York Times 24 Jan. 1932, sec. 8, p. 6
“As a child, I probably knew phrases that other children didn't known, like "pitocin drip" or "myocardial infarction." Some kind of knowledge was always in the air. My parents would always talk about science at the dinner table, saying something about this patient or some other patient. So I guess for a nanosecond in early high school, I thought about going into medicine.”
“I'm too much of a control freak.”

Source : "What went right?". Interview with Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2001.
“Your day will go the way the corners of your mouth turn.”
“My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera”
“The gods tempt us. They offer us riches and sweet smelling women, tres leches, each milk sweeter than the one before. But you cannot beat the gods. The grander house and the bigger deal only mean more borrowed time, more risk. When you build your life on a house of cards, you never know when the joker will turn up.”
“I'm Jewish, so I don't know much about Easter eggs.”

Source : IGN Interview, www.ign.com. September 30, 2005.

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