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The Luddite predicament is not uncommon. New technologies almost always create new winners and losers. Even a better mousetrap is bad news for the manufacturers of traditional mousetraps. It is hardly good news for the mice, either.
“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.”
― Lords and Ladies
― Lords and Ladies
“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
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“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
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Short & Sweet Treats
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David’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at David’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
400 books
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16 friends
479 books
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121 books
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878 books
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67 books
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12 books
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101 books
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68 friends
84 books
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110 friends
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