Fundamentally, you will be cured of two very serious kinds of intellectual blindness: Developmental blindness—meaning that you consistently fail to see the developmental stages of human beings, animals and societies. Inner dimensions
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“People will forgive you for being wrong, but they will never forgive you for being right—especially if events prove you right while proving them wrong.”
― Is Reality Optional? And Other Essays
― Is Reality Optional? And Other Essays
“It is far easier to concentrate power than to concentrate knowledge. That is why so much social engineering backfires and why so many despots have led their countries into disasters.”
― Intellectuals and Society
― Intellectuals and Society
“When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.”
― Black Rednecks & White Liberals
― Black Rednecks & White Liberals
“Personally I take more satisfaction in understanding people than in passing judgement on them.”
― Chess Story
― Chess Story
“We need to evangelize technological progress with every word and action. To recognize that the purpose of technology is to transcend our limits and to motivate everything we do with this sense of purpose. To take the winnings from our web apps and put them toward Mars. To feel no hesitation to start small and no shame in dreaming big. To tell the world it is possible to cure the deaf, restore sight, and end death itself.”
― The Anthology of Balaji: A Guide to Technology, Truth, and Building the Future
― The Anthology of Balaji: A Guide to Technology, Truth, and Building the Future
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