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Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.

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Clay Shirky
Age: 61
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
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Bureaucracies temporarily suspend the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In a bureaucracy, it's easier to make a process more complex than to make it simpler, and easier to create a new burden than kill an old one.
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One of the best ways to know you're completely wrong, is to behave as if you're complete right.
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The loss of control you fear is already in the past.
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We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.
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