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Written by Yuri Lopes Pereira
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- Retrograde
Like water, gold simply can’t tell you what it used to be. - Free money
Bankers and prophets seem to be driven by an almost poetic compulsion to push further. - Backward
Pride and prejudice. Certainty borne out of extreme cruelty, both felt and inflicted. A century of warlords and volunteers. - Primitive
The accumulation is called primitive because it predates the new world. - Exposure
Way it works when you want to hide a secret is you tell a good story about it. It’s not lying, more like camouflage. - Providence
He’s trained in building bridges, literally, but by now he’s become used to blowing them up – it’s 1941 and everyone needs to adapt. - Hauka
Becoming your enemy is the deadliest and most effective strategy at your disposal, and one that should be avoided at any cost. - World stage
The young recognize no boundary between systems and applications, they will respect no mediocrity in your product design. - Fault
A world where reality is mixed, heightened by the flavors of infinite spectacles, and where justice is still possible. - Siege
Fate and coincidence conspire behind closed doors and establish a sense of inevitability in global affairs. - Soufra
The choice of metaphor matters: life on this planet did not evolve from a single, orderly tree-like structure, but from a loose and diverse conglomeration of primitive cells that flourished together. - Pattern languages
The Timeless Way of Building, by Christopher Alexander, 1979, teaches us about form, function, the unforeseen effects of poor choices, and the things that should remain unsaid.
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