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It turns out that the way humans are made, the software-based approach seems to have much more success.


Edward Castronova

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EDWARD DAHLBERG It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, a...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspire...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enig...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
EDWARD DOWDEN The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right.
EDWARD SIMMONS The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.
EDWARD GIBBON