- Relief
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
'I am not adopted; I have mysterious origins.' I have said that sentence many times in the course of my life as an adopted person.
- Mysteries
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like mysteries.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Through the miracle of natural genetic recombination, each child, with the sole exception of an identical twin, is conceived as a unique being. Even the atmosphere of the womb works its subtle changes, and by the time we emerge into the light, we are our own persons.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing was a way to get away from my life as a programmer, so I wanted to write about other things, but of course nobody wanted to publish another story about a family, unless it was extraordinary. When I began writing about my life as a programmer, however, people were interested.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
So many people for so many years have promoted technology as the answer to everything. The economy wasn't growing: technology. Poor people: technology. Illness: technology. As if, somehow, technology in and of itself would be a solution. Yet machine values are not always human values.
- Machine
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's some intimacy in reading, some thoughtfulness that doesn't exist in machine experiences.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our Constitution is designed to change very slowly. It's a feature, not a bug.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can only get a beginner's mind once.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like the idea that Facebook controls how people express themselves and changes it periodically according to whatever algorithms they use to figure out what they should do or the whim of some programmer or some CEO. That bothers me a great deal.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think technical people now should learn literature, because literature teaches you a great deal about how - the depths and variety of human imagination.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel the best villains are the ones you have feelings for.
- Jewish
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't consider myself a Jewish writer.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a dark thoughts writer.
- Pessimism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a pessimist. But I think I'd describe my pessimism as broken-hearted optimism.
- Enamored
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that focusing all experiences through the lens of the Internet is an example of not being able to see history through the eyes of others, to be so enamored of one's present time that one cannot see that the world was once elsewise and was not about you.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020