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"It is my life’s goal to have a anecdotal law named after me. That or a breakfast taco platter."

"Don’t put all your eggs in the same basket. You choose what to share and where: never let yourself end up in a situation where you’ve created such a dependency on a company that bailing out is quite hard."

"Politicians and the press bought into the panic over organized shoplifting, but the source of the alarming statistic now admits that it was a lie."

"This huge collection of non-scary optical illusions and fascinating visual phenomena emphasizes interactive exploration, beauty, and scientific explanation."

"Planet of Exile takes a somewhat different approach to the survey and study of the indigenous population than Rocannon’s World, blending the idea of an ethnological study with the premise of a “lost colony” in a fascinating story that addresses cultural difference, exilic loss, knowledge keeping, and more.

Error 402 dives into the tension described in the original form of the statement.
"On the one hand… information sorta wants to be expensive, because it’s so valuable. The right information at the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information almost wants to be free because the cost of getting it out, in many respects, is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two things fighting against each other."