“If you're totally confused, don't worry, it means your brain is functioning normally.”
Paul DiLascia (1959–2008) American software developer
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“It was a dramatization of total chaos, a functional definition of confusion, an unchoreographed dance of sad violence. It was war.”
— Dan Simmons, book The Fall of Hyperion
Source: The Fall of Hyperion (1990), Chapter 7 (p. 51)
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