“Times had changed.
Sooner or later, they always did.”
Kage Baker book The Graveyard Game
Source: The Graveyard Game (2001), Chapter 2, “Hollywood, 1996” (p. 10)
“One of the peculiar features of history is that time always erodes advantage. Every invention sooner or later erodes advantage. Every invention sooner or later leads to a counter-invention.”
Source: The Red Queen (1993), Ch. 1. Human Nature
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