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“ The walls were chipped and needed paint. The windows were mostly okay but one pane was blocked with cardboard. There were fleas the exterminator couldn't kill and rats that scrabbled in the walls and mice who left droppings like a cocked snook and roaches that thrived on insecticide, even the illegal kinds. ”

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There are two kinds of fools. One says, This is old, and therefore good. And one says, This is new, and therefore better.

~ John Brunner

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

~ John Brunner

It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side and not theirs.

~ John Brunner

You will die, and I, and all we can create—why not a city? But if there is one thing that deserves to be immortal, it is knowledge.

~ John Brunner