Quotable San Francisco

A treasury of quotes from San Franciscans and about San Francisco, from the gold rush to the tech boom.   San Francisco is forty-nine square miles surrounded by reality . —Paul Kantner, Jefferson Airplane   San Francisco surged from hamlet to boomtown overnight—the most meteoric “instant city” in history. From the Gold Rush to the Tech Rush, it’s been the site of daring innovations, counterculture upheavals, and social rebellions that shaped generations. And over the decades, residents