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Quote by Jaron Lanier
My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in suffi

My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity – in the sense that Im willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing. – Jaron Lanier

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