A Quote by Antonio Garcia Martinez
In Silicon Valley, where I worked at companies like Facebook and Twitter for the earlier part of this decade, Cuba was generally regarded, when it was regarded at all, as a technological curiosity.
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While I cannot be regarded as a pillar, I must be regarded as a buttress of the church, because I support it from outside.
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