1. You can't win. 2. You can't break even. 3. You can't even get out of the game.

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Several publications attribute the quote to Ginsberg, probably the first one is The Coevolution Quarterly in 1975 [Google books books.google.it, but there's is no evidence whatsoever that he ever pronounced it. A more detailed analysis can be found in this post

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