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In turn, we will be tempted to kill our computers, but we won’t dare because we are already utterly, irreversibly dependent on these hopeful monsters that make modern life possible.

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Form follows function straight to hell.
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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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To scenes by memory’s silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho’ it sprung From one united heart.
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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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