“There's something deeper than making money off stuff. Being part of creating stuff for the universe is awesome.”

—  Ilya Zhitomirskiy

As quoted in Obituary by RayClaire at Glint (16 November 2011) http://r-c-d.diaryland.com/111117_11.html

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