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Great principles, great ideals know no nationality.

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We are, after all, homo economicus.

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Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to all their friends without charging: we called them "librarians".

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Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.

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Nothing stands for content-free corporate bullshit quite like PowerPoint. And that's just scratching the surface.

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Writing novels takes up about 100% of my available working time.

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I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the kind of religion that posits a Creator. To my way of thinking, an omnipotent being who sets up a universe in which thinking beings proliferate, grow old, and die (usually in agony, alone, and in fear) is a cosmic sadist.

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