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De nos jours, en revanche, alors que beaucoup d’individus continuent de tenir des propos racistes de ce genre, ceux-ci ont perdu tout fondement scientifique et l’essentiel de leur respectabilité politique – sauf quand ils sont reformulés en termes culturels. On ne dit plus que les Noirs ont tendance à commettre des crimes parce qu’ils ont des gènes
... See morePierre-Emmanuel Dauzat • 21 Leçons pour le XXIème siècle (French Edition)
that, contrary to standard belief, the market shares of many technology companies could be predicted with great accuracy, even if the underlying changes in technology changed frequently.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
Finkle-McGraw began to develop an opinion that was to shape his political views in later years, namely, that while people were not genetically different, they were culturally as different as they could possibly be, and that some cultures were simply better than others. This was not a subjective value judgment, merely an observation that some
... See moreNeal Stephenson • The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book)
When you got to ‘whites will be a minority,’ I heard the audience cheer. Can you imagine an audience of white people cheering ‘Oh, it’s going to be all white’? No you cannot. Those are your new overlords.”
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
One of our favorite quotes of his is, “I keep saying that the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. And I’m not kidding.”21 When we look at the amount of digital data being created and think about how much more insight there is to be gained, we’re pretty sure he’s not wrong, either.
Andrew McAfee • The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
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