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Economics is the most human of sciences. It is the science of wants and frustrations. It is psychology subject to the abstract, amplifying forces of mathematics.
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I've always found that the root of a computer problem is human frailty
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Nationalism, then Islamism, both twentieth-century inventions, destroyed the Greek civilization in Egypt that had endured for three thousand years.
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The elephants fight but the rats go about their business.
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Ghosts? Pah. We are the most substantial things in the world, the foundations of the present. We are memories.
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Ian McDonald
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March 31, 1960
(age 64)
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Ian McDonald is a British science fiction novelist, living in Belfast. His themes include nanotechnology, postcyberpunk settings, and the impact of rapid social and technological change on non-Western societies.
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