“Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.”
― Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
― Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
“We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.”
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“Specialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the ‘expert’ is fooled into accepting a slavery by making him feel that he in turn is a socially and culturally preferred—ergo, highly secure—lifelong position.”
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