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― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“What does it mean to taste something and be transported to so many places at once, all of them a piece of home? To be half-elsewhere all the time, half-here and not-here. There are two sides of myself: one longing for the city, one at peace near the sea.”
― Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
― Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai
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― A History of the World in 6 Glasses
― A History of the World in 6 Glasses
“They're blind to a simple truth: complex minds can't develop on their own. If they could, feral children would be like any other. And minds don't grow the way weeds do, flourishing under indifferent attention; otherwise all children in orphanages would thrive. For a mind to even approach its full potential, it needs cultivation by other minds.”
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― The Lifecycle of Software Objects
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