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“I've always been slow but I'm even slower now. I'm more into the waiting, or I guess I'm more patient about the waiting.”

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John Irving

John Irving is an American novelist known for his intricate narrative structures and profound character development. His works often explore themes of family, love, morality, and identity, enjoying great popularity among readers. more

“Seasteads cost money, and if you want to succeed as a Seastead you have to find ways to attract people to move there. If I was a billionaire I wouldn't want to move to a seastead, but if I was a member of the bottom billion, most of whom want to leave their dysfunctional governments, I might want to move to a seastead.”

People Ifs Way Want Government Might Moving Cost Succeed Members Bottom Billions Billionaire

Author:Joe Quirk

“That's the marvellous thing about seasteads; if a government fails, there's nothing much the people who live there can do about it. But if seasteads fail, they simply disassemble and go away.”

People Ifs Government Can Do Failing Going Away Marvellous

Author:Joe Quirk

“Oil platforms are a technology for floating permanently on the high seas, and cruise ships are a technology for self-governance on the high seas, and if you combine these two technologies, imagine cruise ships that never dock but float permanently. Imagine if they were 10 times as big. Imagine if they were modular and could move about and you could choose the neighbours you wanted to live with.”

Ifs Two Self Bigs Wanted Moving Technology Imagine Sea Oil Ships Platforms Floating Floats Governance Neighbour Cruise Docks Cruise Ships High Seas

Author:Joe Quirk

“I think our children will be living on floating cities, and they will look back on the 20th Century, when people lived in primitive governments founded in previous centuries, and they will be living on modular, sustainable, floating cities that we can't imagine now, that are based on the voluntary choice of citizens. I think we will have a marvellous world in the 21st Century.”

People Thinking World Looks Children Government Choices Cities Imagine Century Citizens Our Children Primitive 21st Century 20th Century Floating Living On Marvellous

Author:Joe Quirk

“We're going to draw a new map of the world, with French Polynesia as the centre of the Aquatic Age.”

World Age Draws Maps Centre Polynesia

Author:Joe Quirk

“A lot of Pacific island nations are sinking below sea level; they could easily transition slowly into becoming floating nations.”

Nations Levels Sea Becoming Islands Transition Floating Pacific Sinking

Author:Joe Quirk

“I am a dog person and not a cat person, definitely a dog person.”

Persons Dog Cat

Author:Will Shortz

“If you are for a long time at the top you've basically achieved everything you wanted to. Then the ball's breaking stuff starts to be too much: it's not what you do in the car, it's what you do outside the car - the press conferences, the interviews, the sponsorship commitments, the marketing appearances - that sadly go up to a level that the whole package, including the risks you take, the workload you do to get the car to work and for you to be quick in the races, it becomes too much.”

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