"...there's an infinite amount of money out there,"

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Was rather tickled by this quote from Neal Stephenson's magnificent, "Anathem":


"I hadn't known that," I said. "I always tend to assume there's an infinite amount of money out there."

"There might as well be," Arsibalt said, "but most of it gets spent on pornography, sugar water and bombs. There is only so much that can be scraped together for particle accelerators."

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