Trimming Circles
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“Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss. A dangerous across, a dangerous on-the-way, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous shuddering and...
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“Beware, baffled humans. Beware of false prophets who will sell you a fake future, of bad teachers, corrupt leaders and dirty corporations. Beware of cops and robbers,...
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“Nothing, Lucilius, is ours, except time. We were entrusted by nature with the ownership of this single thing, so fleeting and slippery that anyone who will can oust...
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“The dreamers look skyward with longing. The Internet hums with its usual promise — you will find your people, your myth, your wonder, and maybe your transformation. T...
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“Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.” — Judge Holden
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“And when your surpassing creations find the answers you asked for, you can’t understand their analysis and you can’t verify their answers. You have to take their wo...
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“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” — Carroll
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“You cannot answer a question that you cannot ask, and you cannot ask a question that you have no words for.” — Pearl
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“People are the weakest link in the security chain.” — Mitnick
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“Because of your work, I can do my life’s work in my lifetime.” — somebody to Jensen Huang
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“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” — Huxley
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“Are we justified in assuming a model of nature for which no calculable simulation is possible?” — Zuse
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“Deep understanding of reality is intrinsically dual use.” — Nielsen
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“Of all the jobs in front of us, the most important is to ensure a happy life for our people. Every family hopes that their children can have a good education, their s...
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“It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have clarified and exhausted a ...
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“The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!” — Alexander Pope
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“Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs.” — Djikstra
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“Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters...
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“The idea was you had to do something to counteract your pure distractive consumerism. What Starbucks enables you to do is be a consumerist without any bad conscience ...
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“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.” — Turing
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“LA told me, “You’ll be a pop star All you have to change is everything you are.” — P!nk
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“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.” — Lovecraft
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“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” — Hemingway
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“Understanding an idea meant entangling it so thoroughly with all the other symbols in your mind that it changed the way you thought about everything.” — Diaspora
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