Growth: Stay curious -- never dismiss an idea before you understand it; don't be satisfied with what you think you know. Stay critical -- don't blindly accept an idea because it has been around for a while or because lots of people believe in it. Go back to first principles.
-- François Chollet (@fchollet)
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You deserve a lover who takes away the lies and brings you hope, coffee, and poetry.
-- Frida Kahlo
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We should all strive to become a cell in the global brain.
-- Tim Berners-Lee
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It is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.
-- Harold Evans
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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
-- Albert Einstein
The greatest impact of computers on the availability of information lies not in their power to manipulate it and to distribute it but in the ease with which they enable it to be gathered.
-- John Browning
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Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
-- Laurence J. Peter
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Invention is a flower. Innovation is a weed.
-- Bob Metcalfe
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In this era of information overload, censorship works by drowning us in too much undifferentiated information, crippling our ability to focus. These dumps, combined with the news media's obsession with campaign trivia and gossip, have resulted in whistle-drowning, rather than whistle-blowing: In a sea of so many whistles blowing so loud, we cannot hear a single one.
-- Zeynep Tufekci (NYT Nov. 4, 2016)
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Healthy systems have their boundaries.
-- Lawrence Lessig (Lessig Blog)
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