>
> —old Soviet joke (paraphrased)
-> Don't think.
-> If you think, then don't speak.
-> If you think and speak, then don't write.
-> If you think, speak, and write, then don't sign.
-> If you think, speak, write, and sign, then don't be surprised.
->
-> —Soviet proverb
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https://xkcd.com/1942/
> A woman came up to me and said
> When truth is buried underground it grows, it chokes, it gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.
>
> –Emile Zola
+
+> And Durham—the software puppet, the lifeless shell animated by a being from another plane—looked him in the eye and said, "You have to let me show you what you are."
+>
+> —_Permutation City_ by Greg Egan