I have no attachment to fame and no desire to preserve it for its own sake. What I want is enough freedom and time to build a life centered on thought. That life requires some money, but not very much.
~ Yiyang Zhuge via Wired Magazine.
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Thoughtless reliance on technology is a liability.
~ Jim Collins, Good to Great
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Repossessors and tow-truck drivers work different jobs but use the same equipment. The tow truck was patented in 1918 by Ernest Holmes, Sr., the owner of an auto-repair shop in Chattanooga, Tennessee, who pulled vehicles out of ditches using a modified Cadillac and chains. Today’s tow trucks, also known as wreckers, are computerized work stations with integrated digital dashboards, camera systems, blind-spot monitoring, and hydraulic rotators.
~ Paige Williams via The New Yorker
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Quantum Alternative To GPS Navigation Will Be Tested On U.S. Military Spaceplane
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Convinced he had little talent as a painter or a sculptor, Andres Serrano borrowed a friend’s camera and began taking pictures. He insists he isn’t a photographer, and he doesn’t develop his own prints. He thinks of himself as an artist who uses a camera.
~ Louis Menand via The New Yorker
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The politics of the Valley was always a liberal sort of libertarianism: pro-choice, pro-immigration, idealistic, even utopian, arrogant about its mission of empowering individuals and connecting humanity, but indifferent to and ignorant of government, with an engineer’s contempt for the creaky workings of bureaucracy and the cluelessness of elected officials.
~ George Packer via The Atlantic
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