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Chinjut on Aug 10, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: How yuppies hacked the hacker ethos

You inspired me to look up the origin of that quote, which was actually quite an interesting (albeit inconclusive) investigation; see http://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/06/18/cleveland/

ethbro on Aug 10, 2015 [–]

I'd always heard Tennessee Williams, but impressive due diligence. It's interesting that Cleveland only gets tacked on as the butt of the quip when it has problems and white-flight in the mid-1970s.

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