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""What we should be afraid of on this bright new year's morning is apparently not Y2K but what we might call the year 2001 bug – for that is the year in which, according to Clarke and Kubrik's haunting '2001 – A Space Odyssey', the electronic brain of the computer known as HAL 9000 will take cold logic to its worst extreme and commit murder."
– Steve Grand, 'Creation: Life and How to Make It'" — Dec 28, 2023 04:30PM
""What we should be afraid of on this bright new year's morning is apparently not Y2K but what we might call the year 2001 bug – for that is the year in which, according to Clarke and Kubrik's haunting '2001 – A Space Odyssey', the electronic brain of the computer known as HAL 9000 will take cold logic to its worst extreme and commit murder."
– Steve Grand, 'Creation: Life and How to Make It'" — Dec 28, 2023 04:30PM
“What you just dictated to me is the secret. As each Arcana is a mirror and not a truth in itself, become what you see in it. The Tarot is a chameleon.”
“Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.”
― Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
― Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
“Baumeister says that people who succeed don't have more willpower than you: they just develop better daily routines and habits, which after a while become automatic and require less thought — less conscious energy.”
― The Barefoot Investor: The Only Money Guide You'll Ever Need
― The Barefoot Investor: The Only Money Guide You'll Ever Need
“Facts are our friends. The longer we as a society insist on ignoring them when they get too uncomfortable, the more we erode our potential to be truly great.”
― Geek Wisdom: The Sacred Teachings of Nerd Culture
― Geek Wisdom: The Sacred Teachings of Nerd Culture
“The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.”
― Selected Papers on Computer Science
― Selected Papers on Computer Science
“What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.”
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