"You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean it's useless."

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... when I saw any of those kinds of beauty I knew I was alive, and not just in the sense that when I hit my thumb with a hammer I knew I was alive, but rather in the sense that I was partaking of something--something was passing through me that it was in my nature to be a part of.

— Neal Stephenson