“At the time, though, I felt distant from Zuckerberg and all the kids at Harvard. I still feel distant from them now, ever more so, as I increasingly opt out (by choice, by default) of the things they have embraced. We have different ideas about things. Specifically we have different ideas about what a person is, or should be. I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.”
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“I've spent most of my life feeling like a checker in the chess set”
“I just know you're a good man," she said desperately. "You're not a bit common!”
“Careful,” he said. “If you keep blushing like that I may do more than just draw you.”