"Kipple is useless objects, like junk mail or match folders after you use the last match or gum wrappers or yesterday's horoscope. When nobody's around, kipple reproduces itself. For instance, if you go to bed having any kipple around your apartment, when you wake up the next morning there's twice as much of it. It always gets more and more."
"I see." The girl regarded him uncertainly, not knowing whether to believe him. Not sure if he meant it seriously.
"There's the First Law of Kipple," he said. "Kipple drives out unkipple. Like Gresham's law about bad money. And in these apartments there's been nobody there to fight the kipple."
- Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, p.219 in Counterfeit Unrealities
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