The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes
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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend
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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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I try to turn a written thing, when I’m in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.
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It was the grander French one: Why not kill yourself tonight? That the answers come to much the same thing in the end-easy does it
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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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We don’t know that we’ve lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence.
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The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.
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Writing well isn’t just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in
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What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship
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We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions – adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers – none can equal the Internet.
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Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.
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