fun in new york city

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Tad’s mission in life is to have more fun than anyone else in New York City, and this involves a lot of moving around, since there is always the likelihood that where you aren’t is more fun than where you are. Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City

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“The world of technology thrives best when individuals are left alone to be different, creative, and disobedient.” —Don Valentine

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“A good part of any day in Los Angeles is spent driving, alone, through streets devoid of meaning to the driver, which is one reason the place exhilarates some people, and floods others with an amorphous unease.”— Joan Didion

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A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. Max Planck

Make no small plans

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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons … Read More

what architecture signals

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“If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to.” — Joseph Campbell