“Any idiot can build bombs. Our Trinity sits not on some desert sand seared into glass at an abandoned, sad pillar of stones. It's in our heads and our hearts, it's in our genes, this beautiful, gorgeous marriage of money, freedom and ingenuity.”
TRINITY (part 2) https://web.archive.org/web/20030801081841/http://www.ejectejecteject.com:80/archives/000057.html (4 July 2003) <br class="br">2000s
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