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At the end of his Stanford commencement speech Steve Jobs quoted the farewell message placed on the back cover of the last 1974 edition of the Whole Earth Catalog.)

— Stewart Brand

"Stay hungry. Stay foolish." Whole Earth Catalog.

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We are as gods and might as well get good at it.

The house and its occupants mold to each other twenty-four hours a day, and the building accumulates the record of that intimacy.

Redundancy of function is always more reliable than attempts at perfect, which time treats cruelly.

In our researches on the likely economic apocalypse it's become clear what is the prime survival tool for hard times: friends. Good friends. Lots of them.

Whole Earth Epilog (1974)

Earthrise, by William Anders, Apollo 8, 1968, the cover photo of the second and third editions.

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