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An inspiration engine for ideas
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
Nor is she simply a memory machine, one of those prototypical top students with a capacity for ingesting vast amounts of unfiltered information. She is sensitive and acute, her opinions are unfailingly original, and, shy and nervous as she is, she stubbornly holds her ground in any argument.
Paul Auster • Invisible
Sophia
Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
“Her intellectual gifts do but minister to a moral character that is the noblest and best balanced I have ever met with in life.”
Kieran Setiya • Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
her again, shall be rewarded by GEORGE MUMFORD.
Russell Shorto • Revolution Song: The Story of America's Founding in Six Remarkable Lives
The improbable is not yet impossible. As we deduce, we are too prone to that satisficing tendency, stopping when something is good enough.