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    Frederik Pohl
    “A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.”
    ― Frederik Pohl
    tags: sci-fi, science-fiction, writing
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    Douglas Adams
    “If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.”
    ― Douglas Adams
    tags: humor, science
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    Donald Ervin Knuth
    “An algorithm must be seen to be believed.”
    ― Donald Knuth, Leaders in Computing: Changing the digital world
    tags: algorithms, computer-science, engineering, technology
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    John Archibald Wheeler
    “In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.”
    ― John Archibald Wheeler
    tags: explore
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    Isaac Asimov
    “In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
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    Isaac Asimov
    “If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”
    ― Isaac Asimov
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    William Gibson
    “The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.”
    ― William Gibson
    tags: future, planning
    1076 likes

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    Anaïs Nin
    “Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: civilization, inspiration, revolution
    620 likes

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    George Bernard Shaw
    “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: ideas
    638 likes

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    Alastair Reynolds
    “I think I've reduced the amount of blood in my caffeine system to an acceptable level.”
    ― Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space
    tags: caffeine, coffee
    125 likes

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    Raymond Williams
    “To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing”
    ― Raymond Williams
    tags: despair, hope, radical
    118 likes

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    Andrei Tarkovsky
    “A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.”
    ― Andrei Tarkovsky
    tags: books, people, reading
    392 likes

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    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
    tags: books, thought
    31197 likes

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    Philip K. Dick
    “There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive. ”
    ― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
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    Ray Bradbury
    “Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: inspirational
    523 likes

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    Ray Bradbury
    “Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: books, future, libraries, past
    440 likes

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    Dan Simmons
    “No lifetime is long enough for those who wish to create, Raul. Or for those who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.”
    ― Dan Simmons, The Rise of Endymion
    tags: creativity, death, meaning-of-life
    14 likes

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    Dan Simmons
    “No lifetime is long enough for those who wish to create,”
    ― Dan Simmons, The Rise of Endymion
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    Albert Einstein
    “It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: intelligence, learning, wisdom
    4121 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: learning, mentoring, parenting, teacher
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
    ― Richard Feynmann
    tags: curiosity, learning, scholarship
    2195 likes

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    Jim Henson
    “[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”
    ― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider
    tags: childhood, education, learning, teaching
    2019 likes

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    Socrates
    “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: education, enlightenment, learning, lifelong-learning, mentorship
    1590 likes

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    “Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.”
    ― Mitchell Kapor
    tags: fire, information, internet
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  • #25
    “Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors.”
    ― Peter Watts, Blindsight
    tags: brain
    64 likes

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    “People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think.”
    ― Peter Watts, Blindsight
    tags: blindsight, humanity, nature
    133 likes

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    Edward O. Wilson
    “We have created a Star Wars civilization, with Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.”
    ― Edward O. Wilson, The Social Conquest of Earth
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    Edward O. Wilson
    “The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.”
    ― Edward O. Wilson
    tags: crisis, emotions, flaws, human-beings, humanity, humans, institutions, people, problems, technology
    397 likes

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    Edward O. Wilson
    “Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.”
    ― Edward O. Wilson
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    Edward O. Wilson
    “Meanwhile, because humanity is still swept along by animal passions in a digitalized global world, and because we are conflicted between what we are and what we wish to become, and because we are drowning in information and starved for wisdom, it would seem appropriate to return philosophy to its once esteemed position, this time as the center of a humanistic science and a scientific humanities.”
    ― Edward O. Wilson, The Origins of Creativity
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