The greatest crisis facing modern civilization is going to be how to transform information into structured knowledge.
-- Carlos Fuentes

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Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
-- Aldous Huxley

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Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
-- Buddha

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An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

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We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.
-- Dan Quayle

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Earlier generations of machines decreased the complexity of tasks. In contrast, information technologies can increase the intellectual content of work at all levels. Work comes to depend on an ability to understand, respond to, manage, and create value from information.
-- Shoshana Zuboff

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One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow.
-- Vincent T. Foss

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While hiking in New Mexico a while back, I saw these Native American pictographs. Staring at them and reflecting was mesmerizing.

Fun fact: people colloquially use “petroglyphs” to describe paintings on rock walls. But that specifically refers to etchings, not paintings. “Pictographs” is the term for the latter.

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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
-- Voltaire

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Freedom is a balancing act that requires knowing when to relinquish authority.... Too much control prevents us from seeing possibilities beyond our immediate desires. Too much order stifles the healthy chaos, the restlessness, of a truly open mind.
-- Andrew Shapiro

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