Less, but better.
~ Dieter Rams
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Monthly Archives: April 2024
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A delay in a balancing feedback loop makes the system likely to oscillate.
~ Donella Meadows
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As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can’t have it both ways.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
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Beauty, like truth, is a thing which is relative to the time in which one lives and to the individual capable of understanding it. The expression of the beautiful bears a precise relation to the power of perception acquired by the artist.
~ Gustave Courbet
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Sometimes, when a person is truly lost in this world, suffocating inside her private bubble where all she can hear is her own droning heartbeat, a touch can be enough.
~ Walter Kirn
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The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.
~ George C. Marshall
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Anyone who studies present and ancient affairs will easily see how in all cities and all peoples there still exist, and have always existed, the same desires and passions.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor.
~ Jonathan Haidt
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Campus Life at the
University of Texas at Dallas
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Software that can think and learn will do more and more of the work that people now do. Even more power will shift from labor to capital. If public policy doesn’t adapt accordingly, most people will end up worse off than they are today.
~ Sam Altman
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