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Attributed to early FB employee Jeff Hammerbacher: "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks." http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_17/b42250609...



I believe he was paraphrasing Ginsburg, though businessweek may have mangled it somewhat, here's the original:

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by adwords, starving hysterical naked,

dragging themselves through the back-linked sites at dawn looking for an angry fix,

Angel-headed hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection

to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night...




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