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" I think most people either forget or don't know that Microsoft only hires people with I.Q.'s well over 130. "
Douglas Coupland
Forget
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" Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life. "
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" I'm not patient - and I'm getting more impatient as I get older - but I am disciplined about writing, and I want that on my tombstone: 'He wasn't patient, but he was disciplined.' "
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" I always thought of words as art supplies. "
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" I think Americans are weirdly puritanistic about psychopharmaceuticals. There are millions of people out there who would otherwise be dead or rocking by themselves in a corner who now lead full and normal lives because of amazing and wonderful scientific advances. "
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" Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict? "
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" The things worth writing about, and the things worth reading about, are the things that feel almost beyond description at the start and are, because of that, frightening. "
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" Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long. "
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" Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem. "
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" You can never become rich unless you like rich people. "
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" My Google existence is probably larger than a lot of people's. "
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" I don't know if it's a very smart idea to admire the living. "
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" If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it. "
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" I think the killers get far too much attention. "
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" If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you? "
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" Data transmission is no longer something scary you don't want in your backyard. Now you want it directly in front of your house. "
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" If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil. "
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" Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal. "
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" Games I do find interesting for what they say about us, about what we wish for, about the programming. But let it stop there: don't listen to this rubbish about them actually being good for you, helping with hand-eye co-ordination or whatever. They're games. They prepare you for nothing. "
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" It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations. "
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" I think as a species we're not designed to be able to think more than one year into the future - if that. Even trying to imagine one year from now makes most people feel like they've been given a huge boring chunk of homework that's too hard to do. "
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" I tend to look for pathologies everywhere. "
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" There used to be a tradition of the loveable rogue who would steal from the honour boxes in churches and buy a round of drinks with the money he snagged. And everyone would find him tremendously good company. But not any more. "
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" I go to the gym three days a week. You have to or else - I don't want to be the guy that dies shoveling snow. "
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" I'm always looking for things that are so incredibly present that they become invisible. "
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" I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New York, when there are 81 things to do every night? Awful. Give me solitude and space any time. "
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" I keep vampire hours, going to bed at 2 A.M. and waking up at about 10:30-11 A.M. "
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" If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater? "
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" I like being surrounded by good ideas. Every single time you walk past something you like, you get a blast of happy chemicals to the brain, and I like that. "
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