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#1. Why do organizations need to mark everything with their insignia? It's like a dog peeing on every tree. Google is the same way. So was NewBagel. Using

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#2. We need James Bond with a library science degree.

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#3. They are developing a form of renewable energy that runs on hubris.

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#4. We take the subway.Grumble's next message came through after breakfast, and it said:
theres a grumblegear3k waiting for you at 11 jay street in dumbo. ask for the hogwarts special. hold the shrooms.

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#5. This is no library. This is the Batcave.

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#6. He's like a storybook spirit, a little djinn or something, except instead of air or water his element is imagination.

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#7. That's almost cute: Don't forget your ruler on your first day at cult! But where is 'down below'?

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#8. At Google, they eat lunch on graph paper.

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#9. Lapin breaks away from Broadway and picks a path toward Telegraph Hill. Her velocity is steady, even as the landscape rises underneath her; she's the little eccentric that could.

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#10. I always thought the key to immortality would be, like, tiny robots fixing things in your brain," she says. "Not books.

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#11. Turning the pages of this encoded codex, I realize that the books I love most are like open cities, with all sorts of ways to wander in. This thing is a fortress with no front gate. You're meant to scale the walls, stone by stone.

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#12. So I switch to my MacBook and make my rounds: news sites, blogs, tweets. I scroll back to find the conversations that happened without me during the day. When every single piece of media you consume is time-shifted, does that mean it's actually you that's time-shifted?

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#13. The nature of immortality is a mystery,' he says, speaking so softly that we have to lean closer to hear.' But everything I know of writing and reading tells me that this is true. I have felt it in these shelves and in others.

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#14. I walk alone in the darkness and wonder how a person would begin to determine the circumference of the earth. I have no idea. I'd probably just google it.

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#15. The whole economy suddenly felt like a game of musical chairs, and I was convinced I needed to grab a seat, any seat, as fast as I could.

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#16. There are plenty of people who, you know - people who still like the smell of books.

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#17. Kat bought a New York Times but couldn't figure out how to operate it, so now she's fiddling with her phone.

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#18. You know, I'm really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their own secret spaces, their own records, their own rules.

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#19. Ometimes discipline is the truest form of kindness.

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#20. Its a museum's job to keep things for posterity,"Tabitha sniffs. "We have a temperature-controlled storage unit full of Christmas sweaters.

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#21. He was a religious kid, and the goldsmith's trade turned him off. He spent all day melting old baubles down to make new ones - and he knew his own work was going to suffer the same fate. Everything he believed told him: This is not important. There is no gold in the city of God.

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#22. This cult seems like it might have been designed specifically to prey on bookish old people - Scientology for scholarly seniors.

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#23. Thank you, Teobaldo. You are my greatest friend. This has been the key to everything.

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#24. Now, for the first time in my life, I empathize 100 percent with Fluff McFly. My heart is beating at hamster-speed and I am throwing my eyes around the room, looking for some way out.

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#25. Kat is talking to someone else now, a slender brown-skinned boy who's joined the line just behind her. He's dressed like a skater, so I assume he has a PhD in artificial intelligence.

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#26. And then, on a sunny Friday morning, for three seconds, you can't search for anything. You can't check your email. You can't watch any videos. You can't get directions. For just three seconds, nothing works, because every single one of Google's computers around the world is dedicated to this task.

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#27. At best, the fellowship is founded on a false hope, and at worst, it's founded on a lie.

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#28. This is exactly the kind of store that makes you want to buy a book about a teenage wizard. This is the kind of store that makes you want to be a teenage wizard.

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#29. I wonder if Cheryl realizes how historically significant the contents of this cardboard box are. "Oh, honey," she says, waving her hand, "everything in there is a treasure to somebody.

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#30. He has the strangest expression on his face- the emotional equivalent of 404 PAGE NOT FOUND.

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#31. A fellowship of secret scholars spent five hundred years on this task. Now we're penciling it in for a Friday morning.

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#32. The outer perimeter of the facility is like a highway; this must be where all the popular artifacts hang out.

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#33. Our friendship is a nebula.

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#34. People want things to be real. If you give them an excuse, they'll believe you.

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#35. Midway through, a fuzzy-chinned young man approaches the desk with a battered copy of Dune and a motley handful of coins. Mo waves him away. Oh, just take it, Felix. Spend the money on a haircut.

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#36. Sometimes, you're stuck with a system too complicated to model completely.

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#37. This is Mat's secret weapon, his passport, his get-out-of-jail-free card: Mat makes things that are beautiful.

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#38. Neel takes a sharp breath and I know exactly what it means. It means: I have waited my whole life to walk through a secret passage built into a bookshelf.

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#39. I didn't realize wizards were going to walk among us and we'd just call them Googlers.

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#40. Of course, of course. Drugs, music, a new age dawning ... and you came for an old book.

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#41. She's wearing the same red and yellow BAM! T-shirt from before, which means (a) she slept in, (b) she owns several identical T-shirts, or (c) she's a cartoon character - all of which are appealing alternatives.

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#42. Magic is not the only power in this world.

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#43. Kat is sitting cross-legged on the floor in her underwear and red T-shirt, leaning in to her laptop. I'm on the lip of the bed above her with my Kindle drawing power from her USB port - um, not a euphemism - reading "The Dragon-Song Chronicles" for the fourth time.

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#44. Don't forget your ruler on your first day of cult!

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#45. Books of silver; books of bone; and yet the strangest thing you see in all your years at Galvanic is a boy in a ski-mask, sitting in a basement, using a computer.

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#46. I'm really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their own secret spaces, their own records, their own rules. On

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#47. Google," he breathes. There's a long pause. "How curious." He straightens. He has the strangest expression on his face - the emotive equivalent of 404 PAGE NOT FOUND.

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#48. Its circumference was tiny, but he had a life, and he would not give it up.

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#49. Penumbra's cult runs on egregious licensing fees

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#50. But, of course, the point of a programming language is that you don't just read it; you write it, too. You make it do things for you. And this, I think, is where Ruby shines ( ... )

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#51. Once told, stories take on a life of their own.

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#52. I see it now. You cheated - would that be fair to say? And as a result, you have no idea what you have accomplished.

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#53. At first I thought I had a crush on her, but then I realized she's an android.

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#54. Some of them are working hard indeed."
"What are they doing?"
"My boy!" he said, eyebrows raised. As if nothing could be more obvious: "They are reading.

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#55. It was tall, made of pale blue light, a creature with long arms and long legs and the shadow of a smile, and above it all, eyes that shone bluer still than its body. "What do you seek in this place?" the shade asked plainly.

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#56. Maybe his big build isn't a linebacker's after all; maybe it's a librarian's.

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#57. Penumbra [...] produces another e-reader - it's a Nook. Then another one, a Sony. Another one, marked KOBO. Really? Who has a Kobo?

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#58. None of this represented the glorious next stage of human evolution, but I was learning things. I was moving up.

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#59. Are there sexual fetishes that involve books? There must be. I try not to imagine how they might work.

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#60. Books: boring. Codes: awesome. These are the people who are running the internet.

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#61. Corvina must have been so different then ... really literally a different person. At what point do you make that call? At what point should you just give someone a new name? Sorry, no, you don't get to be Corvina anymore. Now you're Corvina 2.0 - a dubious upgrade.

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#62. Hello, nice to meet you, I sell unreadable books to weird old people - want to get dinner?

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#63. Every day you learn something amazing," Kat says, "like there's a secret underground library in New York City" - she pauses and gapes for effect, and it makes me laugh - "and you realize there's so much more that's waiting. Eighty years isn't enough. Or a hundred. Whatever. It's just not.

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#64. Then: I google "time-series visualization" and start work on a new version of my model, thinking that maybe I can impress her with a prototype. I am really into the kind of girl you can impress with a prototype.

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#65. America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.

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#66. The Golden Horn of Griffo is finely wrought," Zenodotus said, tracing his finger along the curve of Telemach's treasure. "And the magic is in its making alone. Do you understand? There is no sorcery here - none that I can detect.

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#67. I sip something called the Blue Screen of Death, which is in fact neon-blue, with a bright LED winking inside one of the ice cubes.

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#68. Stuff that used to be hard just isn't hard anymore!

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#69. Why does the typical adventuring group consist of a wizard, a warrior, and a rogue, anyway? It should really be a wizard, a warrior, and a rich guy. Otherwise who's going to pay for all the swords and spells and hotel rooms?

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#70. We all come to life and gather allies and build empires and die, all in a single moment.

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#71. Hadoop! I love the sound of it. Kat Potente, you and I will have a son, and we will name him Hadoop, and he will be a great warrior, a king!

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#72. My name is Clay Jannon and those were the days when I rarely touched paper.

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#73. Oh, I am very familiar with the internal monologue.

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#74. I sit up straight and do the first thing a person is supposed to do in an emergency, which is send a text message.

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#75. To tell you the truth, I hate audiobooks.
But an audiobook is like a fizzy knit cap pulled down over your -

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#76. But down below, Penumbra is shouting, "Lean, my boy! Lean!"
And wow, do I ever want this job.

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#77. Nothing lasts long. We all come to life and gather allies and build empires and die, all in a single moment - maybe a single pulse of some giant processor somewhere.

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#78. Go deeper. More iterations. Don't hold back.

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#79. Maybe I'll just go ahead and buy her the Tufte book. I'll bring it wrapped in brown paper. Wait- is that weird? It's an expensive book. Maybe there's a low-key paperback edition. I could buy it on Amazon. That's stupid, I work at a bookstore. (Could Amazon ship it fast enough?)

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#80. But Ruby, my language of choice since NewBagel, was invented by a cheerful Japanese programmer, and it reads like friendly, accessible poetry.

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#81. Lost in the shadows of the shelves, I almost fall off the ladder. I am exactly halfway up. The floor of the bookstore is far below me, the surface of a planet I've left behind.

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#82. The way he says it, I can hear the capital letters.

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#83. There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care.

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#84. Immortality in a book-lined catacomb down beneath the surface of the earth, or death up here, with all this? I'll take death and a kebab.

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#85. San Francisco is a good place for walks if your legs are strong.

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#86. But when people are past a certain age, you sort of stop asking them why they do things. It feels dangerous.

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#87. I'm going to put the moves on her,' he says gravely. 'Things might get weird.' He says it like a commando setting up a midnight raid. Like: Sure, this is going to be extraordinarily dangerous, but don't worry. I've done it before.

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#88. That's what spies do, right? They walk to the bakery and buy a loaf of bread everyday - perfectly normal - until one day they buy a loaf of uranium instead.

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#89. The measure of a bookstore is not its receipts, but its friends," he says, "and here, we are rich indeed.

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#90. To be honest, my life has exhibited many strange and sometimes troubling characteristics, but shortness is not one of them. It feels like an eternity since I started school and a techno-social epoch since I moved to San Francisco. My phone couldn't even connect to the internet back then.

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#91. I for one welcome our new android overlords.

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#92. I can't stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated it into five new languages.

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#93. The shelves were packed close together, and it felt like I was standing at the border of a forest
not a friendly Californian forest, either, but an old Transylvanian forest, a forest full of wolves and witches and dagger-wielding bandits all waiting just beyond moonlight's reach.

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#94. Girl Talk, produced by Andy Warhol.

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#95. The smell!" Penumbra repeats. "You know you are finished when people start talking about the smell.

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#96. The thinnest tendrils of dawn are creeping in from the east. People in New York are softly starting to tweet.

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#97. I'm sorry, but I just don't believe in your ... religion,

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#98. I feel a little whirl of dislocation
the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected

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#99. But I think the writers had their turn," she says, "and now it's programmers who get to upgrade the human operating system.

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#100. I can't eat pizza. If we actually end up with a pizza, it's going to be your responsibility to consume it. Do not let me have any. Even if I ask for some." He pauses. "I'll probably ask for some.

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