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> [The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently,” he said. "The hierarchical systems of the East Coast, England, Germany, and Japan do not encourage this different thinking.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-isaacson/the-people-who-invented-the-twenty-first-century-were-pot-smoking/)

[Walter Isaacson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-isaacson/)

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