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    William Gibson
    “The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
    ― William Gibson, Neuromancer
    tags: first-lines
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    William Gibson
    “Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding...”
    ― William Gibson, Neuromancer
    tags: cyberpunk, cyberspace, internet
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    William Gibson
    “Things aren't different. Things are things.”
    ― William Gibson, Neuromancer
    tags: philosophical
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    William Gibson
    “To call up a demon you must learn its name. Men dreamed that, once, but now it is real in another way. You know that, Case. Your business is to learn the names of programs, the long formal names, names the owners seek to conceal. True names . . .”
    ― William Gibson, Neuromancer
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    William Gibson
    “A middleman’s business is to make himself a necessary evil.”
    ― William Gibson, Neuromancer
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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
    tags: art, economics, economists, expertise, intellect, mind, science
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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “that if you need something urgently done, give the task to the busiest (or second busiest) person in the office.”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “If you survive until tomorrow, it could mean that either a) you are more likely to be immortal or b) that you are closer to death.”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “he tends to mistake the unknown for the nonexistent.”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “much of what other people know isn’t worth knowing.”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “Luck favors the prepared,” Pasteur said,”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “Regular minds find similarities in stories (and situations); finer minds detect differences.”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “Men destroy each other during war, themselves during peacetime.”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “Not seeing a tsunami or an economic event coming is excusable; building something fragile to them is not.”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
    tags: happiness
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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
    tags: art, autism, details, intuition, nerd, nerdiness, nerds, poetry, wisdom, wisdom-vs-nerds
    196 likes

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    Blaise Pascal
    “Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.”
    ― Blaise Pascal, Pensées
    tags: dull, intuition, mathematical
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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
    tags: empaths, empathy, intuition, prophet, wisdom
    114 likes

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    Frank Herbert
    “There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
    ― Frank Herbert
    tags: endings, happy-endings, writing
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    Frank Herbert
    “Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune
    tags: paradox
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    Frank Herbert
    “What do you despise? By this are you truly known.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: muad-dib, princess-irulan
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    Frank Herbert
    “When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: politics, religion, science-fiction
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    Frank Herbert
    “It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: thoughtful
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    Frank Herbert
    “The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
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    Frank Herbert
    “It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
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    Frank Herbert
    “Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: duke-leto-atreides
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    Frank Herbert
    “Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”
    ― Frank Herbert
    tags: belief, kindlehighlight, knowledge, manipulation, propoganda, truth
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    Frank Herbert
    “Truth suffers from too much analysis.

    -Ancient Fremen Saying”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
    tags: introspection
    465 likes

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  • #31
    Frank Herbert
    “The people who can destroy a thing, they control it.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    401 likes



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