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We are as gods, so we might aswell get good at it
Stewart brand
Kelly Johnson: The Swede Who Transformed American Air Power
nationalinterest.org
Everyone, including myself, must be sacrificed to the creative act.
The Institute of Fourth Dimensional Thinking
thinkfourth.orgThe choices you make today will affect your Future Self tomorrow. In this way, you are a caregiver to them. They rely on you to help them thrive.
Warren Buffett used a very apt metaphor once to describe how the second-order problem is best described by a crowd at a parade: Once a few people decide to stand on their tip-toes, everyone has to stand on their tip-toes. No one can see any better, but they’re all worse off.
Rhiannon Beaubien • The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
From anger, delusion arises, and from delusion bewilderment of memory. When memory is bewildered, intelligence is lost, and when intelligence is lost, one falls down again into the material pool.
Bhagavad Gita As It Is Original by Prabhupada
Writer Gertrude Stein's definition of genius: somebody who knows who to be influenced by.