"Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, "if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?""

-- Charles Stross

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“I believe that Silicon Valley is truly a place of excellence and the impact of this tiny community on the world is completely disproportionate to its size. We are the undisputed leaders of technological change. But with our abundance of talent and resources, we also have the opportunity to be the pioneers of social change and, ultimately, this may be our greatest contribution.”
“Instead of trying to modify what nature brought us, we embraced it,”
“I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that's too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly.”
“We're born with the desire, but we don't really know how to choose. We don't know what our taste is, and we don't know what we are seeing.”
“I grew up in the 80s and that was the first time advertising was considered seriously as anything resembling an art form.”

Source : "Radiohead Artist Stanley Donwood". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 15, 2010.
“I don't think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother.”
“You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.”

Source : Lawrence Grobel, Truman Capote (1985). “Conversations with Capote”, E P Dutton
“I have an identity crisis which is not resolved because I'm a dual citizen. My whole family is American, and I was born in India but I was raised in Canada. But all my extended family is American, I've held an American passport and I've spent my whole adult life in between New York and LA. So I feel like an American... and I also feel like a Canadian! I wish more people were dual citizens and then I wouldn't feel like such a freak.”

Source : "Taking Measurements". Interview with Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

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