“Why do people move to suburbia? To have kids! So no wonder it seemed boring and sterile. The whole place was a giant nursery, an artificial town created explicitly for the purpose of breeding children.”

—  Paul Graham

"Why Nerds are Unpopular," February 2003

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English programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist 1964

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