“The surest way to be unhappy is try to be happy all the time.”

— Rudy Rucker , book Master of Space and Time

Source: Master of Space and Time (1984), Chapter 23, “The Way Uptown” (p. 180)

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American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction… 1946

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